While visiting the chapel of the historic Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma, I noticed my friend and fellow pbase photographer Tim May shooting from within a window niche. I used the glowing white walls of this niche to simultaneously abstract and frame him – showing only the lens of his camera and the arm supporting it. This frame within a frame transforms the arm and hand of the photographer into an abstract symbol of an artist at work. I reinforce this concept by leading the viewer to that niche with the gradually darkening 19th century painted wall decorations.