A fruit stand, something every New Yorker has probably walked past hundreds, if not even thousands of times for some people. However, instead of the usual head on or side view we have walking on the street Ruth Orkin shows us an entirely new perspective of a commonplace thing. we are looking down from what is probably the second floor of a building directly above the fruit cart. we can’t see the faces of the bystanders, the person buying fruit, or the vendor selling the fruit. It forces us to focus on the neatly arranged fruits, there seems to be 2 major fruits being sold, grapes and pears. The pears are arranged in rows and look just like the road.  This parallel  is sharply defined by the distinction of the street vs the road however, the cart ends right before the sidewalk so we go from these rows of pears to a giant white square of concrete. Then there are the grapes, the vendor seems to be weighing grapes or sorting them and their random pattern stands out against the solid sidewalk or the bricks in the street with a set pattern.  We get to see all the contrasting parts of the city through the mixing and merging of pattern sin something as simple and inconspicuous as a fruit cart.