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The painting of a simple urban architectural Chicago downtown alley is rich in compositional and symbolic elements. It's not just a single streetlight at dusk in purple yellow. But one of the acrylic artistic expressions of charcoal hiding the idea of Batman in Gotham. It's not easy to spot, but the artist gave enough clues. Take the streetlight in the centre: it's not just one of those cheap orange-red electric light sources you find in almost every urban downtown alley. This is a more artistic design. The artist painted a black light source. And what's a black light? It's an ultra violet light which is used for a particular medical process, usually to show up bruises or other signs of internal bleeding in x-ray pictures. Black light also refers to a technique for detecting counterfeit bills in the same way; the bills have a tendency to fluoresce black when placed under the black light. The use of a black light is therefore apt symbolism for a crimefighter with a shadowy background.