Created by New York sculptor Robert Melee, this work of contemporary public art is one of four such sculptures on display through April of 2009 in City Hall Park. I photographed this one using the park’s Victorian fence as a foreground layer. Melee’s figures began as human forms, and were gradually abstracted by layers of brightly colored paint, giving the appearance of a meltdown. The artist says their meaning is meant to be elusive – “There are no answers, just suggestions on psychological states.” Photographing another artist’s art is always a challenge. I build my image around the heavily saturated primary colors that energize the abstracted figure, squeezed here between an ornate fence and the historic, softly focused former newspaper buildings that fill the background layer.