I built this image around the presence of three posts and three people. The posts are linked by chains and rigidly aligned. The people are free to go their own way in their own time. I shot the image at mid-day, using backlighting to abstract both the posts and the people. The more abstract this image becomes, the more the posts and people function as symbol, rather than description. Black and white imaging will always increase the degree of abstraction by removing the nuance and meaning of color. Just as backlighting hones this image down to the bone, so too, does monochrome.