

Full-length photograph from slightly below waist height of a beautiful woman with deep brown skin and a close-shaved head, high fashion casting. The ground is a cobalt seamless at full strength, wall and floor continuous, lit to a bright bloom high on one side and deepening toward the opposite bottom corner, reaching every frame edge. She has thrown a heavy marigold silk taffeta garment upward and it is frozen at the top of its arc above her head, cracking into hard angular planes that take up more of the frame than she does, its edge cut clean against the cobalt. A fast shutter holds every edge sharp. One large source high on the bloom side rakes across the fabric so every fold reads separately, the shadow inside them near-black, the body left darker than the garment and standing off centre. Matte skin. Mirror-chrome knee boots. Two saturated hues only. Committed and unhurried, the face calm, the body fully extended.