Marianne Vitale's *Shingle Painting (C1)* presents a raw and elemental aesthetic, drawing on vernacular architectural materials to explore themes of labor, landscape, and American vernacular tradition. The work carries an understated, rugged quality that reflects Vitale's ongoing interest in structures and systems rooted in the physical and cultural terrain of the United States. Its surface and form evoke a sense of weathered history, bridging the utilitarian and the contemplative.