The Return, by Armand Merizon

Early in his career, Michigan artist Armand Merizon was known as a painter of photo-realistic landscapes and imaginative nature scenes. When he developed macular degeneration in the late 1980s, he traded representational work for a more abstract style and began to look inward for ideas and inspiration. His 1972 painting The Return features an ambiguous, ethereal figure framed in a transparent enclosure.