Photograph at chest height of an exceptionally beautiful woman, high fashion casting, from the waist up and centred, with both arms raised and bent above her head and her hands meeting, her chin level. Behind her a mottled hand-painted mossy olive backdrop, grainy and soft-focused, lighter behind her and darkening into the corners. She wears a high-necked sculptural bodice built from poured mirror-chrome shells and petals that covers her chest, shoulders and collarbone completely, over a fitted pale grey base layer, falling below into hanging strands of matched white pearls that reach the bottom edge. One large soft frontal source close in, so the chrome throws long soft specular bands along its length and each pearl carries its own small highlight. Very pale matte skin, long dark hair falling behind the raised arms. Silver, pewter, pearl-white, mossy olive and pale skin are the whole palette, the colour held out of the frame entirely. Everything soft except the crisp edges of the pearl strands. Rapt and inward, eyes closed, mouth closed, entirely calm and still.