The Very First Glimpse of Spring is a series of reverse glass paintings that explore the theme of death evocations in landscape painting. Change is inherent in the landscape, and this includes the dying of individual landscape elements—either as a temporary pause or possibly as the end of a cycle. In this work, I have engaged both theoretically and pictorially with the question of what spaces for reflection are opened up by images of dying nature, and how the process of transformation inherent in dying nature can be represented through painting.