

Location: the whole picture is one large sheet of drawing paper with visible tooth and grain, almost entirely bare and white: a field of tall grass drawn as long thin searching pencil lines rising out of empty paper, with construction lines, faint erased ghosts and finger smudges here and there; the grass is bare line everywhere except in one horizontal band across the middle of the sheet, where for the height of a hand it has been carried all the way to a finish - individual worked blades, seed heads, shading and rubbed grey wash - and above and below that band it thins back into single strokes and stops; 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, seen from behind and walking away from us through the grass, and the picture is cut at the base of her neck so that her head is above the top edge of the frame and no face appears anywhere; her arms are held out low and away from her sides with the palms turned back, brushing the tops of the grass as she goes; almost all of her is line - her back, her shoulders, her arms and her legs 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; the only part of her carried to a finish is the band across her body where the tall grass reaches her, from her hips down to the middle of her thighs - there her skin is fully drawn, modelled, shaded and warm, with the worked grass blades crossing in front of it and pressing against it, and the finish ends above and below with a soft ragged edge and becomes bare contour again; her long hair hangs down her bare back in contour lines and passes out of the top of the picture; the only warm tone on the sheet is that one band of her body Clothing: there is no clothing drawn anywhere in the picture