France's first Resident General of Morocco, Marshal Hubert Lyautey, made this opulent palace his Casablanca home in 1912. Today it is used for administrative purposes, its faded elegance reflected in its ornate arches and doors. This image was made in the palace’s interior courtyard. I create layers of arches here – the first is a softly focused close-up of the ornamentation at right. The next is the shadowed arch, which supports a massive chandelier. The middle layer is façade of the palace itself, followed by layer of shadowing, giving the image its sense of depth. The final layer is the most unusual – the ornate shadow of the crenellated arch itself superimposed on even more ornately carved palace doors.