Once again, I use the three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, to draw the eye and stimulate an emotional response to this image. I use both a sense of time and place to make this interpretation an expressive one. The scene itself reminded me of the colorful yet melancholy subjects favored by the painter Edward Hopper. The interplay of light and shadow is expressive. It creates the structure of this image, and allows me to freeze the dog in its tracks as it moves towards the shopkeeper who sits in the shade. I define the dog with the sun, yet its nose is less than an inch away from the cooling shadow that embraces the shopkeeper, and slices through a painted beer advertisement on the building wall. The dog’s profile creates a sense of tension as it moves through the image. The shopkeeper pays no attention to the dog, the shadow play, or the advertisement. At the rear of her shop, a lone window frames a glowing scene of broken tile and a landscape telling us how close this shop is to the edge of town. The shopkeeper patiently and silently waits for a customer, but on this morning she had few takers.