CAC West (US Embassy in Baghdad) confronts the viewer with the sprawling, fortified logic of American geopolitical presence rendered in mixed media on a canvas of commanding scale. Measuring over two meters in each direction, the work draws on the architectural and bureaucratic language of the Coalition Authorities' wartime construction projects, translating the blunt geometry of securitized space into a visual field that is at once documentary in impulse and painterly in execution. Bayles works with layered materials to build a surface that carries both the weight of institutional imagery and the texture of something hand-made, resistant, contingent, qualities that sit in productive tension with the subject matter's associations of permanence and control. Completed in 2007, the work belongs to a moment when the full scale of the American footprint in Iraq was becoming visible to a wider public, and Bayles responded not with polemic but with sustained pictorial attention. The result is a large-format object that functions equally as historical document and as formal achievement, inviting collectors to sit with the contradictions embedded in its imagery rather than resolve them. At 203 by 229 centimeters, its physical presence in a room is difficult to ignore, and that insistence feels entirely intentional. The work is offered through the Saatchi Collection Benefit Auction and is currently located in Slough, UK, from which it will be shipped via IBI International Logistics. Prospective buyers should note that shipping, storage, and any applicable fees and taxes are the responsibility of the purchaser, with specific payment arrangements varying according to the final transaction value.