Rock forms were first built up from encaustic medium itself, dripped and accumulated into relief before successive translucent layers of the same medium were fused over them, submerging what was just constructed. The composition resolves as an intentional aerial perspective: surf breaking over shallow reef, white foam tracing the contours of what the water covers. Medium becomes both the reef structure and the water that obscures it, the shore rendered not as image but as material record, reefs held in wax as they recede in the world.