Wheeler, on the south shore of Nehalem Bay, was once a booming timber town. Today it has 400 residents and a few antique shops. One of them was asking $250 for this cobwebbed pump – currently the cost of five or six tanks of gas. I abstract the pump by including only the nozzle nested in its holder. That nozzle is the subject of this picture. Everything is else is context. The cobwebs tell us that this nozzle has not been removed from its holder in a long while. The chipped paint on the pump adds an emphatic echo of age to the image as well. A picture of the old pump itself would be superficial description. Abstracting it down to its nozzle and thereby emphasizing the cobwebs and chipped paint as context, greatly enhances the expressiveness of this image.