17x14 in. Gouache & Ink 
 
The voided area of the mountains depicts the material world as ghostly and the etheric realm as tangible. It is spirit, it is everything beyond words or human life: gaseous, ghostly, cosmic-- caught in a daydream that lasts a lifetime. The liminal.
 
This piece is a companion to "Hope After Decay", and it is the beginning of the story that is told there.