A fourteen foot high sculpture cast from solid aluminum blocks and mounted on a bronze pedestal now stands at the intersection of Rodeo Drive and Dayton Way in Beverly Hills – a visual gateway to one of the world’s most upscale shopping street. Commissioned by the Rodeo Drive Committee and presented to the City of Beverly Hills, the sculpture was created by Robert Graham in 2003, and is known simply as “Torso.” Graham’s sculpture is an abstracted body of a woman, without a head, arms, or legs. In this image, I take the liberty of abstracting it photographically as well, cropping the statue from thigh to chest and shooting it from behind. Rather that describe the statue or the street, my abstraction emphasizes the way light and shadow play on the aluminum surface of the statue. I include a cropped palm tree in the background to give retain a bit of California context. By simplifying the image to this extent, I intend to express the elegance of both the sculpture and it’s setting to viewers, and allow their own imaginations to take it from there.