Sucre is an architectural jewel, featuring splendid mansions, churches, monasteries and homes dating back as far as the 1600s. Its historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is currently protected by strict city building codes. Most of it is preserved as it looked a century ago. Every building within the historic district must be whitewashed once a year, maintaining its reputation as the “White City of the Americas.” A gaping hole in one of those whitewashed walls offers us this view of Sucre’s mandatory maintenance at work. My interpretation makes the worker laboring within the hole almost a part of it. His curved shoulders echo the curving lines in the whitewashed walls surrounding the hole. He stands precariously upon a plank and sawhorse, no doubt the same kind of equipment originally used to construct this building well over 100 years ago. I render the image in vintage black and white, suggesting that the labors of the past continue to repeat themselves in the present.