

A small tiled changing room, one strip light burning directly above the mirror and nothing else lit. She stands at the mirror with her back to the camera, close, having peeled her black leotard down off her shoulders to her waist to change out of it after class; her whole back is bare from the nape to the low waistband, the shoulder blades moving, elastic marks across the skin, her hair down and damp. We see her only from behind and only her reflection is lit - the strip light catches the wet floor and the top of her shoulders. Her face is not in the picture. At the left edge, out of focus and cut in half by the frame, a young woman student in a towel has stopped with one sock in her hand and is looking. The ceiling is black and the wet floor throws one long vertical smear of light. Camera at shoulder height, close, level. hard top light only, extreme high contrast, sharp focus on her bare back. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy