This young woman caught my attention because I could feel her sadness. She works somewhere in the area, I thought, and she's eating a quick salad after having shopped in a store to buy something for her newborn. I know this because the shopping bag was labelled "Baby Gap" (not included). I sensed that she longed to be with her newborn rather than at work in the city. Hard masonry and angular lines surround her soft and (my interpretation) vulnerable figure, a thematic contrast that reflects her mood. Drooped forward, she is deflated by an unforgiving circumstance that resigns the care of her baby to the arms of someone other than herself.
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