The book consists of Fred Martin's 2015 Paintings and notes about them. The personal themes are life and death, coming to be and passing away. The aesthetic issues are scale (small in our time of the gargantuan), and the use of a few words as essential to the complete experience and personal understanding of the work. The paintings were never meant as "money on the wall" for expensive apartments, but rather as marks in the paths of time for the souls of those who seek.