

A heavy fire door with a small wired-glass window in it, propped open with a rolled grey towel, filling the left half of the frame; through the gap a strip of bright empty corridor. The studio side is dark. Through the doorway and well into the room, small and sharp, she stands with her back to us at the mirror in a black camisole leotard and black footless tights with a student, in the standard men's uniform - a black tank top and plain black fitted shorts to mid-thigh, bare arms, bare legs, bare feet, her hand flat between his shoulder blades; the mirror returns both of them at half size again, so they appear twice in the picture, small. Nothing else in the studio is legible. The camera is out in the corridor looking in, so the viewer stands where a passing colleague would stand. Camera at eye height, level, well back. bright corridor, dark studio, two figures lit by one window inside, deep focus, sharp focus on the two distant figures. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy