Graffiti is, in itself, a layer of meaning superimposed on something else. I use horizontally progressive layers in this image to portray the transformation of an abandoned freight train into a work of contemporary art. This image reads from right to left – beginning with a layer focusing on a partially painted caboose, then moving to a middle layer of an unpainted portion of that caboose, and then culminating the most expressive layer at left – a fully painted freight car, featuring an energetic stick figure that seems to be dancing in a swirl of arrows and circles. To me, these progressive layers symbolize the fading of the railroad era -- a 19th century transportation medium with its grimly painted steel siding, forever transformed into a 21st century form of urban story telling.