I photographed this hobbyhorse five years earlier http://www.pbase.com/image/46539497 ) as part of an atmospheric early morning Santa Fe street scene. I returned in 2010 to make this image on a summer’s evening. This time I move in, and shoot just one of them, instead of four. It is now turned sideways in the window, and I frame the scene within a series of rectangular windows. It becomes a heavily layered image in the process. The first layer is a screen that restrains the horse, symbolically keeping it from going anywhere, a layer that is stacked with a set of three more screened windows crowning the scene. The hobbyhorse itself, resplendent in its evening coloration, provides the second layer, the focal point of the image. A third layer, a window filled with greenery in the rear of the shop, pulls the eye into and through the scene, and prods the imagination to wonder what might lie beyond.