Can Tho, the largest city in the Mekong Delta, is ablaze with lights at night. I made a 1/3rd of a second long image of the illuminated statue of Ho Chi Minh and the surrounding buildings while bracing my camera on the windowsill of my hotel room. You can see it clicking on the thumbnail below. That image functions as an expressive impression of a remarkably incongruous sight. I then made the same image again, only this time I pushed the zoom ring out while the shutter was taking a quarter of a second to open and close again. The effect is this dynamic, energetic, incongruous abstraction. The silver statue is reduced to the blurred haze at left – becoming a presence, no longer a reality. The decorative lights on the buildings behind the statue become abstract neon drawings. The illuminated rooftops at left are random scribbles of light. The lighted tower becomes a skeletal pagoda of light, its clock a moving golden tube. The red and green lights on the right side of the image echo their flow. The entire scene becomes a series of musical rhythms.