Our tour group sent an hour or so visiting a neighborhood art school in Shanghai. My most memorable image from that adventure came from an unexpected place – a corner of a room used as a storage area for props and materials. Beautifully soft light was flowing into this corner from a nearby window. Whenever I make photographs, I try to look for the effective light first, and once I find it, I learn what subject matter it can illuminate for me. That was the case here. I had no intentions of photographing a floodlight, a few easels and a copy of large Greek sculpture. But when I saw how that window light was illuminating these things, I knew I had a chance to make an expressive image. I kept moving the camera until the floodlight and easels partially blocked the head, making it appear as if it was lurking there in the shadows. The head’s intrusion into the easels is incongruous and the light and shadow bathe the head in a soft glow. I focused and exposed on the brightest part of the picture with my spot meter – the curls on the big head. The rest of the image darkened accordingly, and I came away with this image of “art waiting in the wings for its moment.”