

Location: the whole picture is one large sheet of drawing paper with visible tooth and grain, almost entirely bare and white: one thick tree trunk stands up through the middle of the sheet, and only the strip of bark her cheek and her hands are against has been carried to a finish - worked ridged bark, shading and rubbed grey wash - while the rest of the trunk runs up and down out of the picture as two long searching pencil lines with nothing inside them; a few loose strokes suggest branches out in the empty paper; the ground is not drawn; the environment is rendered in grey graphite and grey wash on white paper, while Hanne's skin retains its natural warm, lifelike tone Position: there is one woman in the picture, she has two arms, and both of her hands are visible in the picture: she stands close against the trunk with her chest and one cheek pressed flat to the bark and her head turned so that cheek is toward us, her shoulders twisted hard, her weight on the ball of one foot with the other heel lifted; her near hand is flat on the bark beside her face with the fingers spread; her other arm reaches around the trunk and comes out again past its far edge, so that hand appears clear of the trunk on the other side, holding the brush, and it is drawing a single worked line on the bark there; we can see that hand and she cannot; from the waist up she is carried to a finish and she is wearing a sleeveless shirt, fully drawn, shaded and rubbed with grey, her bare shoulders, her arms and her pressed cheek modelled and warm; from the waist down she is a bare contour only, several faint searching pencil lines lying close together with the paper left completely empty inside them, no shading, no tone and no clothing at all; the finish ends at the hem of the shirt with a soft ragged edge; her long hair hangs down her outlined back in bare line Clothing: the only clothing in the picture is the sleeveless shirt on her finished upper half, drawn in open hatching and rubbed with grey; below its hem there is only bare contour line and empty paper