Mixed Media & Collage on Paper - Currach 12/30/2020 by James Edward Scherbarth

A small red and green boat sits below a grey ring, as though moored beneath a moon of its own.

Currach 12/30/2020 is a work of mixed media and collage on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2021. A currach is a traditional Irish boat built of hide or canvas stretched over a light wooden frame, long used on the Atlantic coast. Here the boat is rendered as a slim hull of collaged red and green, its bow cut in three bold red strips and its interior lined with fine grey stripes. Above it hovers a soft graphite ring with a pointed lower edge. It is 16 inches wide and 12 high.

Plenty of sea, implied, and room to sail it.