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28-AUG-2014

Same sculpture, different story, Imperial Beach, California, 2014

This photo of the same Ken Smith sculpture, which also was the subject of my previous image, takes an entirely different viewpoint here and tells another story. The previous image was an abstract vision of a soaring seagull. I made this image from a distance and included a rising moon, a lifeguard tower, and a group of people having a chat in the background. I abstract it in shadow, rendering it largely as a silhouette. I reveal the entire sculpture here, depicting an abstract sea otter floating on its back and playing with a large sphere on its belly. The wings of the flying seagull now become the tail of a playful otter. The curved shape of its back echoes the curve of slender quarter-moon overhead.

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