I spent a morning shooting with a local photojournalist, who was also a tour guide. She took me to the ruins of an old building. It had no roof or floor, and its interior had been turned into a parking lot. Yet the character of Charleston’s past is expressed through the colors of the brick walls that still stand. An empty window frame holding a planter gave me an opportunity to create a symmetrical frame with a frame within a frame picture. The planter in the first layer is the key to the image. It tells us that people care very much about the appearance of this ruin. This wall is not left to decay – it is preserved as a token of Charleston’s past. A second layer frames the door of another reminder of Old Charleston.