The Lost Treasure

Greg Lahti
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
12 × 16 × 1.5 in

Some things are worth searching for…

(A figure stands at the water's edge, her dark silhouette cropped at the torso, denim cutoffs catching the hazy light as she holds a light bulb attached to an extension cord. The bayou stretches behind her in washes of golden ochre and muted sage, cypress trees dissolving into atmospheric mist while a pale sun hangs low in the humid sky. A pillar of the boat dock and a metal bucket anchor the composition's left edge, grounding this intimate moment of Southern leisure in tactile specificity.)