One of the most important advantages of staying in one location for an entire month is the ability to return again and again, at different times of day, to photograph the same subject in many different ways. I photographed Surfhenge, the gateway to Imperial Beach’s pier area, nearly every day I was there. I made this photograph late in the afternoon, when the translucent arches framing this public art monument were in their most colorful state. I used a nearly 300mm telephoto focal length for this image to compress the spacing of the arches until they merge into a single band of vivid colors. I photographed a variety of different people passing below the arch and in the surrounding background. This image combines two figures – one man carrying a water bottle is wedged between glowing green and red acrylic, while another stands upon the green grass in the background, bordered by green and yellow arches. A palm tree trunk stabilizes the entire frame at the left hand edge. This piece of civic art becomes living art, part and parcel of the community itself.