

Location: the whole picture is one large sheet of drawing paper with visible tooth and grain, almost entirely bare and white: a corner of open ground with a few long grass blades and a low bramble drawn only as thin searching pencil lines running out into empty paper, with construction lines, faint erased ghosts and finger smudges here and there; one single grass blade close to her foot has been carried all the way to a finish, worked and shaded and rubbed with grey wash, and every other growing thing on the sheet is bare line; the ground is not drawn and is left as white paper; the environment is rendered in grey graphite and grey wash on white paper, while Hanne's skin retains its natural warm, lifelike tone Position: there is one woman in the picture and almost all of her is line: she sits on the bare paper with one leg folded under her and the other ankle pulled up across her knee, bent right forward over that foot with her spine curved into a deep C and her long hair falling straight down past her face, and her whole body, her face and her hair are drawn as a bare contour only, several faint searching pencil lines lying close together with the paper left completely empty inside them, no shading, no tone and no clothing anywhere on her; only three small things on the whole sheet have been carried to a finish, and they are her own two hands and the bare foot they are holding - fully drawn, modelled, shaded and warm, the fingers of one hand pinching at the ball of the foot where a thorn has gone in, the other hand steadying the heel; the finished skin stops at her wrists and at her ankle with a soft ragged edge and becomes bare contour again; her fine brush lies on the paper beside her where she has put it down, fully drawn and finished; her head is bent down over her hands and she is looking at the thorn; the only warm tone on the sheet is her two hands and that one foot Clothing: there is no clothing drawn anywhere in the picture; her long hair falls forward past her face and over her chest, drawn in bare contour lines