I began working on this image as a framing exercise, using the left hand edge of the image to slice the red pick-up truck in two in order to create a more incongruously abstract color clash between the red steel truck bed and the lavender building behind it. As I worked on the framing, I saw a woman and girl moving up the street towards me. I wanted until they were squeezed between the back of the truck and the right hand edge of the image and then released the shutter. The resulting photo is charged with tension, created largely by what I left out. The missing cab of the pickup truck forces our minds to imagine it. The people seem to be lunging out of the image – they are so close to the edge that we are moved to wonder what might await them beyond the right hand edge of the frame. The doorway to the lavender building is also a frame of sorts, left stunningly incomplete. It seems as if the top of that frame has been turned into a fragment of what it once had been. The image is a series of abrasions – the stucco in the upper left corner of the frame is peeling away, the front half of the parked truck is gone, its rear part needs repair, and the door frame of the house has been chopped apart. In contrast, the people seem incongruously intact. The little girl wears her best dress, presumably for school. Her book bag is even a near match for the color of the building.