Wickenburg, only 45 miles outside of Phoenix, was founded as a gold mining town during the civil war, and eventually became the Dude Ranch capitol of the United States. Many of its original commercial buildings still stand, but as in many western towns, they have been gentrified to attract the tourist trade. I walked around the town for an hour and found this single image, which expressed the essence of the place for me. A painting of a stylized cowboy in action fills an entire blank wall on the side of a souvenir shop. Recognizing its potential as my fifth and final subject layer, I walked a block further, passing along the side of a church with elegant western landscaping. I turned and framed this landscaping in varying degrees of focus: a soft Yucca in the first layer, a rounded hedge as a second layer, and a small cactus as the third layer. The high hedge, which makes up my fourth layer, abstracts much of the cowboy. Only his head, arm, and lasso, painted in fiery red colors, can be seen. It was enough to encompass the essence of 21st century Wickenburg.