In this quietly elegiac work, a solitary tree etched into layers of encaustic and cold wax stands as a ghostly remnant of what once was. Its bare, wind-swept branches stretch outward—yearning or remembering—while faint grasses beneath hint at a landscape left behind. Created through carving, revealing, and staining, this piece preserves traces of earlier marks, much like the terrain of memory itself. Vestige explores the emotional resonance of longing, absence, and ancestral belonging. This image speaks not only to physical landscapes, but to the spiritual topographies we carry within—fragmented, tender, and enduring.