Jonathan Anderson, Construction (Refuge), 2009, oil on birch panel with unpainted structure, 37 × 48 in.

The structural framing of a two-story building fills this panel and touches its outer edges, subtly associating the construction of a building with the construction of a painting. The structure itself is unpainted, allowing the bare wooden panel on which the painting is made to stand in for the wooden structural framing of the home. The “landscape” beneath this building has been created by stacking brushstrokes of uniform width, which expand like the rings of a tree or geological strata—or visually flow like flood waters.