Wide photograph from a very low camera tilted up. A freshly painted cobalt wall of half-round fluting in close courses, clean and evenly sunlit, cuts the frame edge to edge as a near-vertical edge, the wall standing as one whole side of the frame, its repeat converging in strong perspective and each unit a slightly different value of the same hue. A deep turquoise sky fills the rest with a thin bright coping line along the join. a strikingly beautiful woman with very dark skin, a long neck and sharp cheekbones, her head close-shaved, an adult in her thirties in a matte scarlet crêpe garment is pressed flat back against the wall with both hands on it, her body crossing the join — the garment holds its hue in shadow so the body reads as one flat shape. Matte and unretouched skin. one scarlet tone painted over the lid, the crease and the brow bone as a single soft-edged zone. Hard sun, three saturated hues, two thirds of the frame empty colour. Imperious and theatrical, the body used as pure gesture.