We briefed Chepala Market as a single ground-level vignette rather than a procession, because a fish market is a circle of people crouched around the catch, not a line walking past. Cheriyal's single-panel layout let us put the whole floor in one frame, every seller and buyer at the same low eye level the way the morning actually feels. The wet floor was the fusion problem — no shading allowed — so the damp became flat leaf-green puddle shapes scattered across the red ground, and the calico cat threading between them is the detail anyone who has stood in that market will recognise first. The hanging hand-scale at the centre gives the scene its still point; the silver fish do the colour work flat against the vermilion.