An adolescent or young adult, gender indeterminate. We can see his face only in the centre of the frame and his eyes, pale and dreamy, look intently ahead. He has shapely full lips with a slight downturn and a neutral expression. Though the gaze is piercing, as if looking through us, beyond.
There is the smooth and shredded trunk of a paperback tree behind, and the peeling strips of tissuey bark cover the top of his head like a headdress or hair, and surround his face as though he is embedded in and emerging from the tree. There is a sheen to the sinewy bark, rough and silky at once. Lit from above, one eye appears out of darkness, one out of light.
