Abstract Drawing - Move III by James Edward Scherbarth

A striped black and white ladder climbs to a point, overgrown with tiny graphite flowers.

Move III is an abstract drawing in graphite on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2016 and signed and dated 09-06-2016 on the verso. Drawings in a single medium often depend on contrast between solid areas and line, and graphite can manage both. A tall wedge of alternating black and white bands rises at the right. Loose loops of leaf and blossom wind around it and trail across the sheet to a cluster of bell shapes on the left. Small dots and stems scatter between them. It is 11 inches wide and 8.25 high.

Something is growing up that ladder, and nobody seems to mind.