A huge amusement park climbing wall, studded with stains, cracks, bulges and grips, provides an incongruous backdrop for this child, dressed all in pink. She is hanging on to a grip with one hand and reaching for a toehold on another grip at the same moment. Not only does this grim wall offer an incongruous sight – there are other incongruities as well. Colors clash, and the youth and gender of the subject may surprise us. We don’t expect to see young girls, dangling from a rope and wearing pink, casually threading their way up a menacing, disfigured gray wall. This image confounds our expectations, and triggers our imagination in the process.