Mirror-symmetrical studio bust portrait of a strikingly beautiful woman with very dark skin, a long neck and sharp cheekbones, close-shaved head, shoulders square to the lens, on deep ochre ground that darkens into the top corners. Two polished chrome bars of a headpiece dropping past the ears, framing the face like two columns. A satin band over a knit over a teal poloneck, three layers readable at the neck at once. Violet acetate with the eyes and the freckles readable through it and darkened by it. One large frontal soft source, even light, small hard speculars on metal and on a glossed lip. The face left clean so the light supplies the colour, densely freckled. One thin dark line at the lash root and the rest left soft. Cropped at the chest. Composed, closed and unamused, holding perfectly still.