Studio beauty portrait of a strikingly beautiful woman with very dark skin, a long neck and sharp cheekbones, close-shaved head on a pale bone seamless ground a shade warmer than the skin and filling half the frame, the head turned three-quarters. Hard sculpted curls set close, with loose stray hairs flying free across the bone ground and held sharp. One block of magenta sits taken up over the brow bone and out onto the temple as one long soft shape, its outer edge airbrushed away into clean skin, the one colour in the picture. A black patent collar with one thin hard rim line. Freckles drawn in dark and dense across the forehead, nose and cheeks — pores, freckles and a real crease held sharp, a taupe lip. Bone, black and skin elsewhere, including in the shadows. Cool, aloof and still, chin lifted and entirely unbothered. One slow lateral drift across the frame at a constant speed, the horizon staying level. One continuous take, held to the end, the grade and the framing staying exactly as described for the whole shot.