The cruciform pose isolated. Lighter, more tentative. Something about the gesture seemed to call for a response. I didn’t quite realise it at the time, but I ended up selecting a photograph from my archive where a detail of the hand and arm echoed the reaching here, and drew that on the facing page. This drawing became the left page of the diptych.
Life Drawing Randburg, session FF: The Body Teaches the Hand, 29 March 2026.