This image is packed with layers,each of them symbolizing a different aspect of Vietnam's booming economy. The woman in the foreground selling fruits and vegetables represents the agricultural economics of the past, while the motorbike behind her, which has come to symbolize Vietnam more than the conical hat on her head, speeds us into the present. Next to it, a watch salesman plies his trade, gold is being brought and sold, and two mannequins seem to incongruously rush from the store, trumpeting the newest in local fashion. Vietnam is a Communist country with a Capitalistic marketplace. Everything from hot peppers to flashy Chinese watches to slightly used motorbikes to pure gold and silken garments are for sale on its streets, and the prices conform to the laws of supply and demand. By layering all of this into one image, I try to express how Vietnam’s frenetic marketplace is evolving.