Protected by a white mask, this sweeper is cleaning the balcony of this Anglican church, built in 1789, the year that George Washington was elected as the first President of the United States. It replaced an original church built in 1665, and destroyed by a hurricane in 1780. Interestingly enough, Washington himself may well have attended services in the original St. Michael’s Cathedral – his only visit outside the US was to Barbados in 1750. (He visited Bridgetown with his half brother Lawrence Washington, spending four months there.) This image contrasts the deteriorating interior of the old church with the effort of this sweeper to keep it tidy and clean. The scene is illuminated with backlight, coming from the windows behind her. The spindles on the railings behind and in front of her suggest the work that she has done, and the work that yet remains.