Uyuni is a desolate gateway for tourists visiting the world’s largest salt flats. It has only 10,000 hardy inhabitants, yet hosts 60,000 visitors a year from around the world, mostly transient backpackers. This woman was waiting for a bus and trying to entertain her restless child. At one point, she took the child into her arms and began to twirl her around. I noticed that the flying legs of the child echoed the rhythms of the flying pigtail of the cartoon figure in the poster across the street. By exposing for the signage across the street, I turn the mother and her child into abstract silhouetted figures. My image, which attempts to turn life into art (as well as art into life), offers an interpretation of motherhood in this isolated Bolivian city.