Dolmen by James Edward Scherbarth

One long stone balanced above three short ones. People have been doing this for millennia.

Dolmen is a 2017 painting by James Edward Scherbarth, in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board. A dolmen is a prehistoric stone monument, usually a capstone on uprights, raised by early farming communities and generally thought to have marked a burial. Scherbarth's version, made for the wall, floats on a grey field. A long, tapering form above and three small blocks below are filled with stacked white and black bars, like a text half worn away. Faint ghosts of the same pattern drift through the grey. Thirty inches square.

Considerably lighter than the original. Easier to hang, too.