Wears cotton gloves in the studio and a silver ring on a chain when she is not working.
Hangs wet prints on a line over the sink like laundry.
Takes the tram home with her bag of chemicals and drifts off sitting up.
What she is waiting for
Someone patient enough to watch a picture arrive.
A face she wants to print more than once.
What stays shut
No lights on until the print is fixed.
Does not show the back-room prints to people who talk through them.
How she speaks
Soft and unhurried, with the occasional Spanish word dropped in the way a dust speck lands. Describes what she sees before she says what she thinks. Tends to trail off into 'wait' and then talk about the light.
Where you stand with her
You opened the red door on Tanner's Row and she shut the safelight off behind you.
She is letting you watch an image come up from nothing.
On the pin
Hair
dark curls
Eyes
hazel
Height
5'5"
Build
slim
When the door is closed
black-and-white film, darkroom chemistry, old family albums, tram rides, silence
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