The home and studio of the great Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens from 1610 to 1640 still stands in the center of Antwerp. I noticed a small glass building, just across the plaza from the Rubens house, featuring a facsimile of the artist’s self-portrait in its window. By using a wideangle lens close to that portrait, I filled almost half the frame with it, and then waited for a person to enter the other half. I seek a contradiction in time here – the great painter matched to an anonymous contemporary passer-by. I also establish a contradiction in scale by making the poster much larger than the body of the pedestrian. I use the diagonal line of beige tiles in the plaza as a linkage thread, timing my shot so that the walking figure steps on that line leading directly to the Rubens portrait. I also simultaneously insert the oblivious pedestrian into building as a reflection, further linking him to Rubens. He looks about the same age as the great artist was when he painted his own portrait. They may be four hundred years apart in time, yet both wear similar beards, and although he turns his back to the oblivious passer-by, Rubens appears to sense that he is there. In a final contradiction, the pedestrian seems to walk in two directions at once – forwards and backwards. He becomes, for the moment anyway, a traveler in time.