A pair of enormous three-dimensional flying red horses – an advertising display from a long since departed gas station – soars above Tom’s Welding and Machine Shop. It is part of a huge collection of nostalgic automotive memorabilia that the shop’s owner has assembled over the years. Rather than shoot the horses from the front, I walked behind the display and found an angle where the hoof of one horse is almost touching the leg of the other. I did not shoot the entire display – only the forelegs and part of the body of each horse. The sun strikes the sign neither from front or back – it illuminates only the thick edges of the display. I cherished the presence of the horizontal bar supporting both horses – it links them together, yet at the same time keeps them apart. The key to this composition is the space I was able to leave between the hoof and the leg. I left just enough to make this image crackle with tension, and convey the point I wanted to get across: energy.