

A small tiled changing room at night, one hard strip light on the ceiling, the corners of the room black. The camera is down on the wet floor at the near end of a wooden bench, close. Nadia lies back along the bench naked and her head has fallen back over the near end of it, so she is upside down and nearest the lens - her throat stretched, her jaw open, her eyes closed, her long dark hair hanging straight down to the floor and lying in the wet. Both of her hands are gripping the edge of the bench beside her hips, arms straight, which is what holds her arched like that. The picture is framed from her waist forward: everything beyond her waist is outside the frame and not in the picture at all. On the wet floor directly beneath her hanging hair lie a pair of worn soft split-sole dance shoes and a rolled grey towel, both at proper size, and the floor throws the strip light back as one long bright smear. Behind the bench a door stands open onto the dance studio, and through it a slot of brighter room shows one horizontal wooden barre and the edge of a mirror. Camera at floor level, level, close to her upside-down face. one hard source above, extreme high contrast, three tones - lit skin, mid grey tile, black corners, sharp focus on her open mouth and on the shoes. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy