

Very close: two bare arms extended straight out into the frame, filling it corner to corner, and her hand round the student's wrist bones, thumb and two fingers, guiding the arm along its path. Her own arm is bare to the shoulder out of a black camisole leotard, the muscle standing out in the forearm, a red elastic mark across the wrist. The student's arm comes from the other side, bare, out of a high-cut black sleeveless leotard. Neither face is in the frame. Behind the arms, thrown completely out of focus, the pale bar of the barre and one blurred window. Camera at the height of the arms, very close, level. one hard source from the left, the far side of both arms falling into black, shallow depth of field, sharp focus where her fingers hold the wrist. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy