I organized this image as a study in tension. I deliberately isolated one worker from the rest, and placed the figure about as close as I could to the top of the image, creating tension between the body and the edge of the frame. There is also tension expressed in the imbalance I express by devoting so much space to the rice and so little space to the worker. I intensify this tension by framing the rice field in perfect symmetry, and then hurling the image into spatial imbalance through the asymmetrical position of the worker. The tension expressed through this imbalance makes the backbreaking work yet to be done seem even more formidable.