Original Painting: Notes From the Universe by James Edward Scherbarth

Black sky, pale ground, and a few notes nobody can quite read.

Notes From The Universe is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth, oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, signed and dated on the reverse 2013. Abstract painters of this kind work in layers, adding and scratching away, to leave a surface that collectors can live with and read differently over time. A heavy black mass fills the top half. Below it lies a pale olive field, thick with faint scribbles, and a loop of cream paint sits on the line between. Thirty inches wide and twenty-four high.

The universe, it seems, has poor handwriting.