The early morning sun gives this cityscape the glow of painted canvas. It is a cross-section of contrasting scale, color and architectural style, underscoring the evolution of New York. In this three-layer image, I juxtapose three progressively higher structures. A small red 19th Century building occupies the foreground and a slightly larger early 20th Century building in the middle ground. In the windows of the 19th Century building we can see abstracted reflections of 21st Century advertising billboards. The middle building is topped with a water tank matching the color of the massive structure forming the background layer. From the look of the faded signs on its wall, it seems to date from the early years of the 20th century as well. ¬