Afterglow is the light, energy or feeling that continues after the source is gone. While the viewer sees a building what the building represents is the presence of someone who has been lost. That which is left behind after the person is gone. The memories that remain, the unrealized potential that could have been, all the feelings and emotions that remain. Upon a closer look at the building you might realize there is no structure supporting the floor slabs, the building is an empty shell like the sheet of a cartoon ghost. The slabs reach for the sky and are are stacked like the accumulation pf years that have passed and then abruptly discontinued. The only thing holding it up is the transparent glass facade that reflects our image holding us as part of this cloak that supports this memory and reflects back at us the afterglow.
Painted at Artfields 2025 during the plein air competition. My depiction of the Continuum building in Lake City, South Carolina.
SAUL ST. / LAKE CITY Crosswalk mural designed and executed just prior to the 2025 Artfields Festival and Competition.