I lived in Gdansk Poland for three months in the summer of 1994. I had the ambition of creating a company there. It was to be a chain of laundrymats. At the time, the country only had one laundrymat, and it was in Warsaw. Anyway, that summer I spent my weekends riding a bike around the surrounding towns taking photos. I happened upon this building/courtyard scene and saw a nice geometric design for a black and white image. Just as I was finishing up a couple of shots, this boy wandered around the corner and saw me. I caught his fleeting, playful gesture just before he left the shadow into the full sunlight.