Night exterior outdoors, the whole air hot magenta, a striking woman in her forties, silver-grey hair cropped short, strong brows standing full length in the middle of the frame on a stubble field with one line of poplars, standing with a dog sitting still at her knee. A strobe from the front gelled to hot magenta to match the air, so the figure is the same hue as the night around them. The sky graduates from near-black at the top through hot magenta to a pale version of it at the horizon, a long exposure holding a few stars. A charcoal overcoat with the collar standing and mirror-chrome knee boots, every surface matte. A fine sheen on the high planes of the face only. One hue family throughout at full strength, the lit foreground the only departure along the bottom edge, and every dark value a deep saturated hot magenta rather than a grey. Still, solitary and composed, looking off past the lens, entirely self-contained.