My photographic style often draws its character from the incongruities I find along the way. An incongruity can be as small as contrasting the gleaming chrome decorating this hood and grille, to the rusted body of this vintage vehicle. Once again, my deep appreciation of the past informs my style – my vantage point stresses the Art Deco lines of both chrome and car. Deco is one of my favorite design motifs – probably because I was born when Art Deco was at its height in the mid 1930s. I can still remember the Deco curves of my father’s Chrysler, and my parent’s sleekly designed chrome Deco cocktail shaker. As I said in the introduction, we are what we photograph, and we photograph what we are. My style often generates nostalgic associations. The rust here implies the lost past. Yet the nostalgic memory of that past – the shining chrome -- still glitters in our imaginations. The car may be inert, but the presence of a thin, jagged strip of blue sky at the right hand edge of the picture implies that a rusted car with such sparkle may well rise from the dead.