I did not want to merely describe the interior of the historic structure that once housed San Diego’s first synagogue, because the room itself is now basically a barren hall filled with empty benches. It has been moved to its present site in a San Diego park for display an example of Victorian architecture. My goal was to suggest its former function as an actual house of worship, and abstraction was my tool. I used my spot meter on the light source itself – the frosted pane of a large window. Only this pane, and the warmly glowing light on the wall, wooden paneling, as well as the back of a bench, remains visible. Everything else goes black, creating room for the imagination of the viewer to enter and fill in the details.