The haunting, compelling, watchful centuries-old gaze of a .guardian door knocker in this 17th century masterpiece collegiate church courtyard in Rome seems unaffected by time, unlike its weathered surroundings.

DOOR, ST. IVO is actually a pendant image, meaning, it is intended to be paired with another image, in this instance, MOVE OVER, BASQUIAT!  (which also won a Nominee Award). Both are urban images from Rome. They are like old and new Rome, the past and the present. Both have layers that define their surface.  ST. IVO - a wooden door, with a Baroque bronze door knocker and escutcheons (key holes) that took centuries of use and weathering to achieve its richly varied texture and look.  

On the other hand, In BASQUIAT, a wall has been enriched by multiple episodes and layers of painted graffiti.  You sense the passage of time here as well but it is a much more recent composition that happened in a much shorter period of time in which multiple individuals came upon the wall and added their own “marks.”