During her time in Mexico, Tina Modotti used her camera to document the murals of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco (see the publications in the nearby case). At the same time, she created a remarkable series of photographs of Mexican people and still lifes. Here Modotti took as her subject the network of telephone wires that were being installed across the country to interconnect and modernize Mexico. Modotti turned her camera upward, using the abstract design of wires to create a skyscape that implies a long stretch of invisible land beneath.