Winter’s Desiderium is a meditation on stillness, absence, and the soft ache of longing. Rendered in muted greys and icy whites, this encaustic painting captures a landscape suspended in time — where wind and snow blur boundaries and memory drifts like fog across frozen ground. The word “desiderium” speaks to an intense yearning for something lost, and in this quiet terrain, that yearning is palpable. This piece embodies the question: Does the land, too, grieve our absence — even in winter’s hush?