

Location: the whole picture is one large sheet of drawing paper with visible tooth and grain, almost entirely bare and white: an open place in rain, with a few thin bare tree lines and grass strokes running out into empty paper, construction lines, faint erased ghosts and finger smudges; the rain itself is drawn as long thin diagonal pencil lines crossing the sheet, and nothing else of the place is worked at all; 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, standing in the open with her feet apart and flat, her spine long, her head tipped right back and her eyes closed, both arms hanging loose and turned palms forward; her face, her throat and her two hands are carried to a finish, drawn, modelled, shaded and warm; the rest of her is 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; but down that empty body run the tracks the rain has taken, and each track is finished - narrow vertical strips of fully drawn, modelled, warm skin running from her collarbone down over her chest, from her shoulder down her arm, from her hip down her thigh and shin to her foot, wet and shining, each strip a few fingers wide with a soft ragged edge where it stops and the bare contour begins again; between the wet strips the paper stays completely empty; her long hair hangs back off her tipped face in bare contour lines; the only warm tone on the sheet is her face, her hands and those running strips Clothing: there is no clothing drawn anywhere in the picture