This thirty-six-foot panoramic collage co-created with my long-time teaching and art collaborator Peggy Ashbrook explores the ecology and evolution of Alexandria’s waterfront communities and the relationship between Alexandria’s natural and built environments, a part of our experience that often is lost for us as we become increasingly urbanized. In taking the viewpoint of the Potomac River and therefore not distinguishing between the importance of historic community institutions built and shaped by Alexandria’s African American and white communities in the neighborhoods along the Potomac’s banks, the collage also tries to prompt us to consider some important social truths about the history and legacies of our Alexandria’s experience as the northernmost outpost of Jim Crow segregation. That it hangs prominently in a public space for children, Alexandria City’s Soft Play Room at the Chinquapin Recreation Center, is therefore as an important marker for the continuing evolution of the City of Alexandria itself. Children can see aspects of the art of Romare Bearden in the collaging technique and of the great Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera in the scope and positioning of the work’s different elements.