Dragon Bridge Green Statue

One dragon dominates the frame, its wings flung wide against a sky that has caught fire. The view looks up from bridge level, placing the verdigris figure close and commanding, its jaw open and neck arched as though the blaze of coral, crimson and violet behind it is something it summoned. Warm amber street lights are just beginning to glow in the middle distance, and a dark wooded hill rises through the last of the evening color, a pale fortress silhouette barely visible at its crown. The whole composition moves diagonally — tail low on the pale warm pedestal, wings lifting toward the upper left — giving the scene a restless, almost airborne energy that the swirling sunset sky only amplifies.