Vision of a corner of the pavement in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, surrounded by mountains, with passers-by, men with white sombreros and women with brown braids, in front of the pink and blue walls of cubic houses without storeys or roofs, with wire-netting windows, which give their name to the painting.

The opposition of light and shadow, especially between the flashes of light on the orange-pink walls and the black wire-nettings of the dark windows, structures the canvas.

The city and the Mexican Indian townspeople form a colourful whole full of contrasts, which the artist experienced during her stay in Mexico and Guatemala in 1973.