Created with molten beeswax, damar resin, and embedded mixed media elements, Adrift explores themes of displacement, longing, and historical memory. The ghostly silhouette of a famine-era ship floats in a vast, unsettled sea, its fractured rigging and spectral presence inspired in part by Ireland’s National Famine Monument. This haunting vessel alludes to the so-called “coffin ships” that carried millions — among them some of the artist’s own ancestors — across the Atlantic during the Great Hunger of the 19th century. This encaustic painting gives visual form to the untranslatable Welsh concept of hiraeth — a deep, aching sense of homesickness for a place or time that may never return. The encaustic medium itself, with its ability to layer, obscure, and reveal, mirrors the complexity of inherited grief and the ephemeral traces of those who came before. In Adrift, both ship and viewer hover between loss and remembrance, history and hope.