A large crystal chandelier hangs within a two-story hall of this museum. It might well have once hung in an elegant plantation house, witnessing both the rise and fall of the South’s cotton economy. Electric bulbs have replaced its candles, but its symbolic beauty remains. I photographed only part of the chandelier, organizing my image along a diagonal line flowing from the upper right to the lower left. I deliberately placed the softly focused Palmetto Palms, the symbol of South Carolina, in the background.
