

A cinematic photograph in a museum basement workshop, a close shot from the far side of the bench. Her big hand comes in from the bottom of the frame, palm up in a hard beam of daylight full of slow dust, and in the palm lie two glass eyes, dark brown with a clear glass dome, side by side and looking up. Further back and soft, her face is bent over the hand, pale grey eyes down on the two eyes in her palm, her dark hair cropped in a buzz cut, and below her face the beam runs over her bare shoulder and the bare skin of her chest above the bib of a brown canvas apron. The rest of the picture is deep black. 85mm, f/2.8, the two glass eyes tack sharp and her face and shoulder soft. Muted, melancholic, hyper-realistic, fine film grain. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy