I framed this image to emphasize a wistful, faded painted portrait of a woman filling one of four window panels set into a building overlooking one of the most popular beaches in the Los Angeles area. I added a sepia tint to this image, removing the diversion of a bright red sign at left, as well as giving the image a nostalgic mood. The woman in the window seems to become more life-like in sepia.

I deliberately used framing to isolate the painting by bisecting the entire window itself, drawing the eye to the painting. The eye then moves towards the top of that sign, mounted on the decorative patterned brickwork. My framing abstracts the sign, as well as the ornate woodwork below the windows. The entire image becomes more abstract, as the formerly red sign and the woodwork are suggested, rather than described. The only element within the frame remaining whole is the portrait, which now is able to ask more questions than it answers.