A single, luminous cherry rendered in the rich, smoky tones of gunpowder on paper, its surface carrying the unpredictable warmth and depth that only Ruscha's unconventional medium could produce. The volatile material lends the humble fruit an unexpected gravitas, its granular texture catching light in ways that graphite and oil paint never could. In choosing gunpowder as his pigment, Ruscha transforms an ordinary subject into something charged with quiet tension, blurring the boundary between the domestic and the dangerous.