Portrait at eye level, square on, head and shoulders of a striking woman with freckled olive skin, high fashion casting, against a clean deep teal dusk gradient, darkest at the top edge and lifting at the horizon, entirely featureless and staying a clean saturated gradient. The skin is rendered smooth and even to the point of porcelain, and freckles are drawn in deliberately across the nose and cheeks, dark and scattered and held razor sharp on top of it. The brows are bleached to white, a saturated deep pink line is worked along the lower lash line, and the mouth is oxblood. One large soft frontal source plus a warm rim running down the bridge of the nose, the brow ridge and one cheek edge. She wears a silk headwrap with a matching high neck, printed with beetle carapaces in emerald and bronze — the print carries all the colour in the frame and is the only pattern in the picture. One flat chrome ear cuff. Hair covered entirely by the wrap. A level unblinking stare, the eyes at their natural aperture with the lids relaxed, held straight down the lens, mouth closed and neutral, completely still.