Many of my building pictures are abstractions of the structure itself. I will only show part of a building – that part that best makes the point I wish to express. In this case, I juxtapose contrasting detail in the sculpted frieze and the neighboring columns to tell the story of the classical architecture that held sway during New York’s “Golden Age” at the beginning of the last century. From ground level, this golden age is invisible. The plate glass windows of shops lure pedestrians who never even think of looking up. But look up I did, and this is the result – a trip back another time, a time when commercial architecture spoke of ancient Greece and imperial Rome instead of mass merchandizing.