In the 18th and 19th Centuries, a forest of masts blanketed the wharves of New York’s East River. Today there are but two sailing ships left, both part of the city’s South Street Seaport Museum. The Wavertree (1885) and The Peking (1911). I juxtaposed them both against the façade of a contemporary office building, appropriately made of green glass, the color the sea itself. I am contrasting two eras in time by placing the ships in the foreground layer and the building as a background layer.