The battleship USS Arizona was destroyed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, with the loss of 1,177 lives. The sunken ship is now a memorial to those still entombed within its hull. A rusted fragment of the ship is part of the exhibit “Flagship of the Fleet: Life and Death of the USS Arizona” at the Arizona State Capitol Museum. Using my camera’s spot meter, I exposed on the bright spot created by an overhead light, abstracting the huge sheet of rusty metal, and allowing it to fall into shadow – suggesting loss and eternal silence. A column of golden rust emerges from those shadows, as if it were a glowing memorial torch.