Jonathan Anderson, Apocalypse, 2013, archival inkjet print, 20 × 60 in.

This work is a diptych of two photographs taken in South Africa. On the left is an oil droplet on a wet road on the outskirts of Cape Town, which creates a rainbow aureola against the dark “sky” of the asphalt. On the right is one of the remaining stairwells of the infamous Old Fort prison in Johannesburg, photographed through glass so that the artist's reflection appears around the edge of the image. A circular section has been removed from the center of this second image in a location and size corresponding to the oil droplet on the left.