Bridge No. 732 carries North Avenue over Route 15 in Westport. Built in the late 1930s along with the rest of the Merritt Parkway, it's a single-span, Art Deco concrete rigid frame bridge.

Two-toned concrete sgraffito images of fiddlehead ferns, flowers, and snails appear on the outside of the bridge. Sgraffito is a technique in which layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colors are applied to a moistened surface and scratched to reveal the layers beneath. Here, the colors come from Wisconsin black onyx and Swedish emerald pearl. The painting shows the original wrought-iron railing with a contemporary chain link fence behind it. The repairs to the fascia are kept visible, depicted in shades of aqua and pink, to show that age in a structure can be beautiful, too.

This is the fourth painting in my bridge series (2021–present), made for a retiring colleague whose favorite bridge it was. I painted it in about a week, working every night.