They are nothing more than eight dead fish on a tray in Vinh Long’s bustling market, but by the time I had finished with them, they soar upwards as if they were an offering to the gods. I built a horizontal base by cutting the fish in half with the bottom edge of the frame, and then allowed their diagonal arrangement to merge into a triangle. The triangle was originally upside down, so I rotated the image, making the bottom of the picture, which originally featured the curving edge of the tray, become an arc at the top of the image, drawing the triangle of fish upwards toward its curve. A second triangle appears inside the first – within the negative space at the heart of the display.