Visual Echoes of Vermont
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This painting no longer exists.
In July 2026 I painted over it. What stands on it now is called Sunken Forest, a green field with no center, and the vertical comb running the full height of that painting is the comb of this one.
I did not paint over it because it failed. I stood in front of it and felt nothing, and the topography was still magnificent. So the image went and the body stayed.
What Vermont was: a canvas split down the middle, black on the left, white on the right, and a combed wave running vertically through the seam so that both halves carried the same undulating grain. No color at all. The whole painting was that division and that wave, and the tension of a surface worked identically on either side of a line.
That grain is what carried forward. If you stand close to Sunken Forest you are looking at this painting's ridges, running top to bottom under the green.
This is the quietest transformation I have made. The others crossed languages. A geometry painting became a gesture painting. A spiral became a confluence. This one did not translate anything. It only re-saturated. A black and white forest became a green one, and the grammar held.
→ See what it became: Sunken Forest
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft × 5ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Black & White
Status: Transformed, painted over July 2026
Became: Sunken Forest (2026)
