This used a lot of photographs. Seventy or eighty. I wasn't counting. And though it is unprepossessing as a subject I have to say I like it. Anything with pillars, I like. And what was appealing to me was not being square on the face of the building. The surface I am facing is the interior side, This skews off the pillars as well as the entrance. So it is an intermediate space. The world outside, the museum inside and this area, clean and minimally decorated, the place to stand to keep out of the rain or the sun, the place to wait or check the sign and find they are open or closed.

The joiner points are sometimes clear and sometimes hidden. On the pillars they are evident, though this also falls in line with the expectation of the pillars being made of pieces one on top of the other (if you are familiar with greek columns and seeing their weathered and reconstructed forms in other places).

This was the fourth version I did of the scene. The colours were pale but with some nice detail in the first construction. I didn't think the straight forward mood fitted such a potentially complex understanding of the scene so I worked it over with colour adjustments and varying the contrast and brightness. Behind that recess in the wall is a pleasantly shaped piece of topiary in a vase but now it becomes sepulchral. I also wanted the pillars not to be completely straight, I could have emphasized that lop sidedness more, I think. Just a shade.

We rarely keep our ruins anymore. A thousand years time this might not be here. I doubt tourists will be looking at the stumps of pillars and walls here. A thousand years time. All that might be left of it could be the pasty, overcopied remant of this photograph. Maybe I should have kept more detail in.