Marigolds are used to honor the dead in Mexico. When she has finished her marketing, this woman is will probably carry her flowers to the cemetery, where she will observe the festival of The Day of the Dead by decorating a family gravesite. I’ve organized this image around a series of layers which move us ever more deeply into space. I shot the picture from over the shoulder of the man at lower right, thrusting the viewer first into the basket of bread that sits before him in the foreground layer. Other people create a framing device on both the left and right hand sides of the image in middle ground layer. The woman bearing the flowers is illuminated by backlighting that streams down on her in a series of dramatic rays from the top of the frame. A long and deep background layer lies before her, its tiny figures providing a sense of scale, telling us how far she has yet to go before reaching the main market below a distant awning.