A ray of sunlight highlights the word “wisdom” at the Pittsburgh Korean War Memorial. The memorial monument is made of black marble columns that are positioned and shaped to capture sunlight.

“As the sun travels the horizon, columns of light articulate, sequentially, aspects of the human spirit, experience and feeling. Through solid and void, light and shadow, the sun traces a spectrum of individual and shared experience.” —R. Allan Christianson, Memorial architect

Words that we can read in this photograph: Love, Fate, Dreams, Wisdom, Grief, Faith, Duty, Pride.

(Pittsburgh, November 2013)

Posted for sale: May 2014. Prints are produced at time of purchase.

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