Photograph from slightly below eye level, tight on the head and one shoulder of a beautiful Black man in his thirties, a full beard and long fine braids, her face high in one half of the frame. The ground is a soft graded field, rust to oxblood, out of focus. Pale mint rakes her face from the front so her skin carries that hue against the ground, and cream and coral is projected across her garment. A long exposure: lengths of fringe is swept through the air on both sides of her and dissolves into repeated streaks radiating toward the frame edges, while she stays completely sharp, her own edge crisp against them. An open lattice garment over the shoulder and arm, the caustic breaking across its strands. A camellia. Left dark, full and unshaped. Head turned back over the shoulder to the lens, level and unhurried, eyes steady, mouth closed and soft.