

A photograph at dusk on flat calm water, the last cold blue light almost gone and the sea and sky the same dark blue. A small open wooden boat floats on the surface and the inside of it is dry, with a woven basket already sitting on its planks. She is out in the sea beside it, coming aboard over the side, seen from the water behind her and slightly to her left, so we see her from behind: the long line of her back, her shoulder blades working, her wet hair soaked flat and heavy down it, and her face only in profile as she looks down into the boat. She is naked, with nothing at her hips, and water is running off her. Her chest is against the top edge of the boat's side, both her hands are flat on the dry planks inside it, and she has lifted one knee up onto the side while her other leg is still down in the sea. Only her two hands are in the picture, both inside the boat. The camera is low and out on the water behind her, level with the boat's side. The light is all in the western sky beyond the boat and it catches the wet line of her back and one cheekbone and nothing else. Two tones: the dark blue of the water and sky, and the wet lit edge of her. Sharp on her hands on the planks. Fine 35mm film grain. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy