While its right hand has incongruously vanished (perhaps the work of vandals), this guardian angel still casts an imposing presence as it looms over a family plot at Green-Wood Cemetery. I was drawn to this scene by the carefully designed gravesite, built as a series of layered horizontal stones, hedge, and memorial wall. A layer of dead leaves covers the surrounding lawn and part of the hedge, while trees mass in the background on either side of the angel.