

Location: the whole picture is one large sheet of drawing paper with visible tooth and grain, almost entirely bare and white: a fallen tree trunk lies across the lower part of the sheet, drawn as two long thin searching pencil lines running out of both edges of the picture, and above and behind it a few branches and grass stems exist only as single loose strokes trailing off into empty paper, with construction lines, faint erased ghosts and finger smudges here and there; only the short stretch of the trunk directly under her feet has been carried all the way to a finish - worked bark, split grain, shading and rubbed grey wash - and the rest of it is bare line; 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 and almost all of her is line: she is standing up on the fallen trunk and balancing along it, one foot placed ahead of the other in line, her knees soft, her spine long, both arms held straight out from her sides and level for balance with the fingers spread, her head bent down and forward so that she is watching her own feet; her whole body, her arms, her hair and her face are drawn as 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 on her, and her face is nothing but a few pencil lines with no features filled in; the only part of the whole sheet that has been carried to a finish is her two bare feet - fully drawn, modelled, shaded and warm, the toes spread and gripping, the arch of the leading foot lifted, the tendons showing - and the finish stops just above each ankle with a soft ragged edge and becomes bare contour again; the only warm tone on the sheet is those two feet Clothing: there is no clothing drawn anywhere in the picture; her long hair hangs forward in bare contour lines past her bent face