A masterpiece by the internationally renowned American-Japanese artist, Makoto Fujimura, Golden Pine, which measures seven metres by five metres, is painted with the traditional technique of Nihonga (literally meaning "Japanese painting"). It uses mineral pigments from semi-precious stones such as azurite, malachite and cinnabar, as well as thousands of gold and silver leaves and hundred-year-old sumi ink, applied on mulberry-gampi paper and laid over synthetic canvas. Golden Pine is a site-specific work that interacts with and enhances its immediate physical environment of Oxford House. The painting echoes the reflection of the trees from the adjacent plaza in the massive glass wall at the base of the building and seems to produce a golden light of its own to respond to the late afternoon sun that illuminates it. In its aesthetic and material nature, Golden Pine also symbolises the interaction of the traditions of the East and the West. Fujimura lives and works in New York, where he has shown his artpieces at the Soho-based Dillon Gallery. His paintings are included in virtually every museum exhibition of contemporary Nihonga in Japan and he has had a two-part museum retrospective in Tokyo. His work hangs permanently in the famed Asian art collection of the St. Louis Art Museum as well as in many museums in Japan.