In Leiden, the town that gave us a Rembrandt, I noticed a large symbolic wall painting on the side of a building next to a construction site. Painted puppets joylessly glide across the huge wall -- a metaphor for thankless work. I see it as a group of indifferent people, dancing to the tune of their boss. They may raise their hands to their heads, but not in joy. Perhaps in confusion. The blue color symbolized the attitude they bring to their tasks. It is a somber dance, performed on an enormous scale. The fact that someone has painted it next to a construction site was not lost on me. It is a comment on work in the midst of a work place. That’s why I included the structures in my own image of it, and why I made sure those sticks of building materials are symbolically skewering the hearts of both the mural and my own photograph. I wanted my image to work as a metaphor for joyless work as well. Our time here is too precious to waste as a slave to mindless duty. The muralist seems to be asking us to reconsider how we spend our time and lives. I made my own dark-toned, semi-abstracted image to symbolically extend that message.