Set with the L&N Building anchoring the foreground and the Sunsphere rising back left, this painting connects Knoxville’s rail-driven past to the optimism of the 1982 World’s Fair. I was drawn to repetition—the Sphere’s faceted glass and the measured rhythm of the L&N roofline—and let those patterns lead the composition. Using an encaustic process where I transfer ink onto beeswax, I build the image fragment by fragment. From a distance it reads as one scene; up close, bits of text and texture surface. No paper remains—only ink embedded in wax—echoing how memory holds what matters and lets the rest fall away.