Although I'm not religious, I can at times experience a transcendent moment. Signs pointing the way to these experiences surround us, some of them obvious, some of them not immediately apprehended.

This photograph was made near the Santuarị church at Chimaỵ, New Mexico, just as the sun was setting over the old village. Understanding came to me, in those last moments of light, that a sign, even the reverse side of a sign, can mean more than we think it does at first glance.