

A wall of tall studio windows burnt out to plain white, filling the whole frame. Against it, over to the left and cut by the left edge, her body from mid-thigh to collarbones in a black camisole leotard over black footless tights, dark as a silhouette with one hard bright rim running down her side from armpit to hip and along the high cut of the leotard at her thigh. One hand grips the wooden barre and the tendons stand out on the back of it; it is the only sharp thing in the picture. Her other arm hangs dead. Her head is above the top edge and not in the picture at all. A grey knit wrap hangs from her elbow. Below, a strip of grey floor with the window reflected in the mop water. Camera at knee height, close, tilted up. backlit, three tones - white window, black figure, grey floor, shallow depth of field, sharp focus on the hand on the barre. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy