Ignacio Allende, who led San Miguel’s town-folk in rebellion against their Spanish rulers in 1810, perished in the effort, but in the process, he had his name appended to the name of the town. I photographed this statue of Allende as a close-up because it was contained in a screen of wire mesh. It is actually a protective device, but it can also represent a young man seemingly trapped in a web of intrigue and politics. The incongruity of a statue caught in such a web creates a statement based on human values.