I thought it was incongruous to find a strong man, sans shirt, arranging a delicate display of flowers in the Long Xuyen market. But the more I watched him, the more at home he seemed among the blossoms. The diagonals in this image are implied, rather than stressed. They are formed by his shadowed right arm extending into the flowers and by the rope he pulls back with his left hand. These repeating diagonals pull the eye into the flowers, relating the man to his task with a gentle subtlety that expresses his approach to his work.