I find cemeteries to be rich in symbolic potential. Various religious beliefs are expressed in monumental fashion. Cemetery art represent man’s attempts to somehow transform mortality into immortality, all of which provides much grist for photographic interpretation. Light and shadow plays a significant role in interpreting such subject matter photographically. Shadows can be regarded as symbols in themselves. They mysteriously withhold information, abstract subject matter, and can often provoke the imagination of the viewer. As I walked about this old cemetery on the sun-drenched Caribbean island of Curacao, I noticed a rusted fence casting its shadow on the walls of a very old tomb. A series of shadowed bars and gothic crosses, symbols of religious beliefs in themselves, rhythmically move across two of the tomb’s surfaces -- the walled up entrance to the crypt itself, and the outside wall of the tomb. A long horizontal shadow bar sweeps across the frame. The recessed entrance to the crypt is also in shadow at its top. The tomb basks in the warmth of the morning light. In this image, I contrast this symbolic interplay of light and shadow against the stark, rusted iron bars of the actual fence that wall the tomb off from us. This fence speaks of the reality and finality of death – whereas the light and shadow imply the spiritual forces that make the concept of death easier for some to accept and perhaps even understand.