I found this man seated precariously on a window ledge of a jewelry store. A wooden canopy over the sidewalk throws shadows created by a low morning sun on both wall and ground like, creating a series of diagonal and vertical lines enclosing the man, as if he were hemmed in. The abstracted figure seems to be either dozing or sad. I’ve implied a number of human values here, among them loneliness, despair, exhaustion, meditation, and discomfort. Or perhaps he’s just killing time. This image offers us a good example of how body language and context, combined with abstraction, can express values that all of us as humans can relate to and appreciate.