Close photograph of a striking woman in her forties, silver-grey hair cropped short, strong brows in marabou feather, the barbs splitting into fine filaments in vermillion, the hood up and the collar pushed high around her jaw so the pile reaches every edge of the frame and wraps around her head, its strands lying along the curve of the hood rather than facing the lens. Her face is set back inside the hood, the hood's near edge crossing in front of it and dropping a soft shadow across her brow. Hard daylight from one side, so the pile is brighter on one side of her head than the other. The pile falls ragged and irregular where it meets her face, the gap it leaves taller than it is wide and wider at the top. Individual fibres lift to near-white where the sun catches them and drop to a deep version of the same hue between them. Mirrored cyan visor, the only hard-edged object in the picture. Bleached to pale ochre, ash or almost white, freckles and fine hairs sharp. A deep muted plum, matte and slightly blotted. Two hues, complementary, both at maximum saturation. Guarded and unimpressed, mouth closed and set, eyes just off the lens.