Vanishing Tracks

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 8ft x 6ft
Creation Date: 2022
Collection: The Pulse of Life

Vanishing Tracks (2022) is a meditation on impermanence — a 95 x 75 inch mixed media painting that explores the marks we leave behind and how they fade with time. As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, it captures the paradox of movement and disappearance, of imprint and erosion.

The composition is guided by trace lines — faint rails, paths, or streaks — that begin boldly and dissolve into misty abstraction. The surface is layered with washes of slate, umber, pale turquoise, and soft ivory, forming a landscape that feels both ancient and immediate. Some gestures are sharp, others are ghosts.

I created Vanishing Tracks thinking of footprints in sand, memory trails, or remnants of a journey barely remembered. It speaks to the parts of us that move through the world invisibly — the emotional residues we can’t quite hold onto but also can’t forget.

This piece shares a quiet resonance with Cy Twombly, particularly his interest in writing as visual gesture and the fading energy of a mark. Like Twombly, I trust the incomplete. The almost-erased. The beauty in what is barely there.

Vanishing Tracks is not melancholic. It is spacious. It honors the temporary. It says: even the most subtle impact matters. Even the path that fades had presence.

As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this painting closes a loop — echoing our own transient lives, and the poetry of presence in motion.