Redmond, Oregon, May, 2009.

On the east bank of the Highway 97 parkway, a turquoise water tower rises like a steel yurt, an industrial assemblage of welded steel plates garnished with strange tornado-shapes and rectangles painted over graffiti tags in hues of turquoise.

Photographer - painter ALXSw (Alexis West) documented the water tower at sunset and during an approaching thunder storm. The images presented in this book were minimally edited, if at all.

This series is a reportage of a structure that is, to this artist, a three-dimensional color field that changes with the light of day, like an enormous mood ring. The tower is an urban shrine to hues of oxidation, nuances of telephone wire shadows, streaks from wind blowing grass flowers in an arch. The water tower is an industrial icon that is both common and enormous, unnoticed, with stairs that seem to lead to infinity.

One of ALXSw's photographs from this series was nominated for a B/W Spider Award in 'architectural' category, 2009.