This metal sculpture rises from a sea of grass, symbolically throwing off its chains. I brought the tree into the frame as well, symbolizing a new life. The artist who made the sculpture is expressing man’s need to be free. Rene di Rosa, who collected this work of art and mounted it outside on his vast estate, surrounded by nature, to enhance it’s meaning. I use a vantage point to stress its emergence from servitude and thereby emphasize the act of freedom. By backlighting the sculpture, I show less of it in order to say more. As an abstraction, the sculpture becomes more than a piece of metal. It becomes all of us.