Eld was made in 2003, at the height of Rojas's involvement with the Mission School, the San Francisco movement she shared with her husband Barry McGee and the late Margaret Kilgallen. The word Eld, is archaic English for old age or senility; combined with the image of a young woman standing alone before a building marked E.L.D., it carries the quiet weight of institutional life, isolation, and the particular loneliness of being out of time with one's surroundings. Rojas paints on wood panel using gouache, working in a flattened folk art idiom rooted in her Peruvian heritage and the vernacular American traditions she absorbed in California; the wood grain showing through the paint surface is not incidental but essential, anchoring the image to its material reality. The figure stands apart from the building, mouth open, facing away from the door; the painting is formally simple and emotionally precise. Acquired at Deitch Projects in 2003, the year of its making, this is an early work by one of the most distinctive painters in American art of the past two decades.