This man was simply sweeping the paths along a hill above some of the ancient Inca ruins that are part of a museum in the center of Cuenca. I moved well below him, entering a chamber of an Inca dwelling. A large stone lintel over the entry to the house soared directly over my head, and a huge stone wall joined it at a right angle. I placed the man at work within the rectangular frame formed by the lintel and the wall. The black and white format abstracts the image, linking the stonework, the man and the trees, as well as the heavy storm clouds overhead, to the man at work -- creating as a seamless expression of labor that seems to stretch back into time itself.