Jackson Road, Pharr, Texas was made during a visit to the Rio Grande Valley from a photo the artist took through a car window — a small abandoned storefront, possibly a former convenience store, set back from the road with two trees behind it. The sky is the biggest element: thick, worked cloud in grays and pale blues laid on with a palette knife, crossed by power lines that arc from edge to edge in black. The building sits low in the middle band, its deep blue wall punctuated by a yellow patch and a corrugated panel with ghosted lettering the artist didn't try to decipher. In front of it, the ground is unpaved — pinks and salmons where the Valley's red clay subsoil has been churned up through the topsoil. The foreground is tall untended grass in olive and yellow-green, painted loosely so the blades break into marks. The painting isn't part of any Valley series — it happened because the storefront insisted on being painted while the artist was passing through. The acrylic was what was in the bag for the trip.