Each of four layers I meld together in this image advances my story. I use the pile of manure on the bottom to give the image its odiferous base and symbolize the realities that accompany housing dozens of cattle within a single building. The second layer is a bed of straw that seems to sanitize the manure piled beneath it and at the same time offers an incongruous stage to a rooster visiting three large friends. The third layer features a bovine trio that ignores the rooster and gazes directly at the viewer instead. The fourth and final layer consists of the steel bars that keep everyone in place.