It is disheartening to walk on the fringes of Portland’s downtown – so many along its streets seem lost -- alive, yet without a purpose in life. However this man reads. He seems to read with intensity and deep thought. The well-thumbed book has passed through many hands. I don’t what he may be reading, but I made the image because it expresses two important human values: using the imagination and thinking about ideas. It is heartening to acknowledge that the imagination can flourish even here in a place where so many live in desperation and anguish.