The Cloisters, holding the medieval collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
is a group of European buildings that were transplanted in the 1930s to a park high over the Hudson River at the northern tip of Manhattan Island. This image shows a small part of one building – a column and the roof supports from a cloister of a French monastery. I built the image in two layers – a simple juxtaposition of foreground and background subject matter. It is also a juxtaposition of color and tonality – with light stone in the foreground contrasting to the dark ceiling overhead. I repeat the arching roof supports in both background and foreground to link the two layers.