

Location: the whole picture is one large sheet of drawing paper with visible tooth and grain, almost entirely bare and white: a wooded slope drawn as a few long thin searching pencil lines for trunks and single loose strokes for branches, running out into empty paper, with construction lines, faint erased ghosts and finger smudges here and there; not one thing in the landscape has been carried to a finish; 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, seen from directly behind, kneeling upright on the bare paper with her weight settled back on her heels, her spine straight, her arms hanging at her sides, and the back of her bent head turned to us and covered over completely by her own hair; her whole body 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 anywhere; the single thing on the entire sheet that has been carried to a finish is her hair - very long, dark, heavy and fully drawn, worked strand by strand in dense graphite and rubbed grey wash, lying flat against the back of her head and running straight down the middle of her empty outlined back to below her waist, staying against her body the whole way, and it is by far the largest and darkest mass in the picture; the finish stops at her hairline with a soft ragged edge and everything below and around it is line and empty paper; her fine brush lies on the paper beside one outlined knee, also finished; the one small warm tone on the whole sheet is the strip of her nape between her hairline and the top of the dark hair Clothing: there is no clothing drawn anywhere in the picture