The swastika has been widely used throughout the ancient and modern world as a symbol of prosperity and good fortune. In its ominous twentieth-century manifestation it has become a symbol of ultimate evil, directly related to the Nazi regime. Robert Moskowitz's white swastika, reversing the black form employed by the Nazis, is, according to the artist, about the memory of the Holocaust. This reversal is also a defiance of the Nazi destruction of this once benevolent symbol, pictured here trapped in the "corners" faintly suggested in the painting.