While shooting in Mission Beach with my fellow pbase artist Tim May, we noticed a sunbather reading a book while reclining on the narrow ledge of a seawall. What made this picture opportunity particularly interesting to both of us was the incongruous placement of those huge red arrows and the speed limit for cyclists posted just beneath her, as well as the additional incongruity of the "No Parking" sign she is ignoring. Since she is otherwise engaged at the moment, she is oblivious to that speed limit – yet the thrust of the arrows seem ready to momentarily send her flying in either direction. I adjusted my vantage point to place the background surf just above her book, and waited for her to eventually shift the position of the book so that it did not merge into her profile. Only then did I shoot. The rhythmic repetition of the horizontal lines of the sky, sea, surf, body, wall, arrows, and sidewalk generate much implied movement, all of it juxtaposed against a subject going nowhere fast.