
A rehab session on a blue mat on the studio floor, the camera down at mat level on the far side so we look along the mat. A young woman student of nineteen lies on her back with one knee drawn up, in the standard student uniform - a high-cut black sleeveless leotard, bare legs, bare feet, hair tied back; her face is turned away and out of focus. Nadia kneels beside her hip in a black camisole leotard and black footless tights, side on to the camera, her weight back on her heels so her own hip and thigh make the near line of the picture, both hands cupped round the outside of the student's thigh just below the joint, turning the leg slowly in its socket. Her eyes are on the joint, her brows drawn together, her mouth closed, her long hair fallen forward. A resistance band and a foam roller on the floor. Beyond, out of focus, the propped fire door and the corridor light. Camera at mat level, side on, close. one window from the left raking low across the mat, the rest of the room falling to black, shallow depth of field, sharp focus on her two hands and the joint. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy