This is a door to one of the many rooms that Sultan Ahmed Al Mansour built to house his guests back in 1578. Today his palace is in ruins, and a close-up image of this door symbolizes that ruination. We see every gouge, hole, and abrasion – and note the rust on the doorknocker, and the jagged hole that presumably once held another. The bent nail and the raw wood just above it represent more contemporary ravages. At the end of the 17th Century Sultan Moulay Ismail tore out the palace’s marble, onyx, gold, ivory, and exotic wood, moving it all to his own imperial city of Meknes. The demolition took ten years. He must have spared this door. But time did not.