The soaring atrium of this museum is capped by a signature skylight, which draws both sun and shadow into the building. I abstracted the huge skylight by zooming in on it, and turned my camera until the vast beams became repeating diagonal lines. The diagonals are straight, and contrast boldly to the curved shadows falling on the sides of the wall of the atrium just below them. A cloud-streaked sky creates a flow of counter diagonals on the outside of the building. The skylight and atrium stand as works of modern art in their own way, and I wanted this image to do justice to that art in what I hope will be a fresh and imaginative manner. Swiss architect Mario Botta designed this building in 1995.