While prowling the streets of the touristy town of Newburyport, I stumbled upon a statue of William Lloyd Garrison, the prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Daniel Chester French, who later created the famed statue in the Lincoln Memorial, sculpted this statue in 1983 to commemorate Garrison’s birth in Newburyport. Garrison, who edited the abolitionist newspaper, “The Liberator,” was known for his oratory, and French’s sculpture depicts him forcefully gesturing. I moved in on his gesturing hand, silhouetting it against the gathering storm clouds overhead. The ship weathervane atop Newburyport’s old Baptist Church (now a restaurant) in the background points at the menacing clouds. I converted this image to black and white because it further abstracts an already abstracted photograph.