square fluted piers in two ranks at colossal scale, cropped hard by the top edge so their full height is unknowable, fluted top to bottom with the flutes running the whole height as continuous unbroken lines. The shafts run straight into flat pale sand, shaft directly to ground. scattered in clusters across the sand — massed small enough to read as granular surface rather than as people. pale chalky desaturated colour throughout, bright even light, the mid-tones held down and the shadows still deep, the colour almost entirely drained. soft diffused overcast, shadowless, every surface lit the same, with one clearly lit band or edge holding the top of the tonal range, bleached, the shadows shallow. The crowd granular and dense, the column shafts smooth and plain. Indifferent and enormous, a holiday happening at the foot of something.