In color, a Kolmanskop interior window reveals what the monochrome version withholds: the exact warm tone of the coastal Namibian light entering the room, and the gradation of the sand drifted across the floor from a deep sienna at the base of the wall to a pale gold where it catches the window light. The sand that fills these rooms is not the coarse sand of the surrounding plain — it is finer, blown inland from the coastal dune fields, carried through broken windows for decades at a rate that has raised the floor level in some rooms by two meters. The color image and the monochrome version (#17) are separate compositions, different in angle and in what they emphasize: the color image is about the material texture of abandonment; the monochrome is about its geometry.