A house of worship can be used communally to express religious faith en masse. It also offers individuals a sanctuary for prayer or simply a place, surrounded by history and art, to sit quietly and think or meditate. For more than 400 years, this particular cathedral has been used in both ways. In this interpretive image, a woman sits alone in the cathedral, caught in the grasp of the sunrays pouring in through an unseen window directly above her. She represents a community of one. There are no choirs or priests or worshippers present. A work of religious art is bathed in the golden rays of light as well. Yet the woman looks straight ahead. She is absorbing the nature of the place itself, and is left to her own thoughts. Some may interpret the streaming rays of the sun as a spiritual or divine symbol. (Some photographers even refer to them as “God’s Rays.”) My interpretation, however, is quite different. To me, the streaming rays of light represent the presence of nature, while the cathedral and its religious art is the creative work of man. I see this person sitting in the presence of that art, and within those rays. She is free to interpret, use, and enjoy her surroundings as she wishes.