What's Lost and What Remains by James Edward Scherbarth

Mostly fog. Then, at the far left edge, something small that refused to go.

What's Lost and What Remains is a 2018 painting by James Edward Scherbarth, in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board. Contemporary abstract painting like this is made for collectors' walls, and a cradle board, a wood panel braced from behind, is stiff enough to take the scraping this technique invites. The surface here is a fine crackle of sage, grey and dusty violet, darkening to olive in the upper right corner. Low on the left edge sits a small patch of rust and white, like the last wall of something. Thirty inches wide and 40 high.

The title does most of the talking. The patch does the rest.