In an arid landscape, behind a Guatemalan Indian couple in the foreground on the left, the canvas shows us a colourful crowd in a market in Chichicastenango.

The white walls of the brightly lit houses catch our eye, as do the bright colours of the hanging clothes and fabrics.

Four diagonals run parallel to the right in a single perspective: the street ground, the procession of the crowd, the sequence of stalls and the mountainous landscape.

In the same breath, the artist bears witness to the pictorial shock felt in front of this contrasting Indian world: rudimentary forms architected with a single brushstroke adjoin circular paint strokes, zones of light and shadow are juxtaposed, the earthy colour of the landscape surrounds a world of bright colours.