He surges out of the dark water, head high, chest breaking the surface, the whole river thrown skyward in a crown of backlit spray. The light turns the water to glass and fire at once, and he stands in it like the shape of refusal, everything that held him down left in the shallows.

Sue Brown held the shutter on the exact second between the struggle and the standing.

Offered as a 10-inch mini canvas, or as a framed giclée from 12 inches square to 30.

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