I saw this person at a distance, sitting by the sea, hunching forward in a nearly collapsed beach chair. He was talking on a cellular phone while a pair of surfers played on the Pacific’s waves behind him. His body language expresses tension, while his context incongruously suggests a place for relaxation and pleasure. I composed the image so that the layered supporting context helps tell the story. The diagonal tire tracks in the sand at bottom echoes the diagonal position of the chair’s back, as well as the horizontal thrust of nearby Pacific Beach’s Crystal Pier in the background. The anxious man is squeezed between them.