A reminder of France's long colonial influence on Indochina, this Catholic cemetery was arrayed like a colorful quilt along a hillside near Chau Doc's famed Sam Mountain, the city's most sacred ground. It is a study in layers, building gradually into a triangle. This triangular composition is not so much a means of guiding the eye from point to point. Instead it becomes pyramidal form, gradually building to the white cross at the top center of the frame and implying a gradual ascent towards eternity.