Boy Sketching on Harbor Wall

“Storybook style. Portrait orientation. A boy in a too-large fisherman's sweater sitting on a harbor wall at low tide sketching in a notebook, the fishing boats below him tilted on the exposed sand, nets spread to dry, seagulls picking through the tideline, an old fisherman mending nets nearby who has been telling the boy a story that the boy has begun to illustrate in the notebook, the harbour behind them a curve of old stone buildings climbing the hillside, grey sky and silver water and warm wool colors”