A large horizontal blue pencil figure drawing of a body in its most compressed state — the figure folded entirely, the head at the lower left pressed down, the body curved up into the upper center, the legs extending to the lower right. The composition describes a body that has folded itself completely: head down, back up, legs out — a crescent or comma shape.
This is the blue pencil version of the folded figure group (1147), but more extreme in its compression: the head is lower, the back curve is sharper, the overall form more tightly packed. The body's compression is the formal subject.
The blue pencil marks on the warm cream paper give the body a cool, clinical quality appropriate to the anatomical study of extreme compression. The marks are searching rather than confident — this pose is difficult to draw, the spatial relationships complex when the body folds this completely.
At the lower left, the head is barely visible within the compressed fold — just the oval of the skull and the indication of the hair. At the lower right, both feet are described with toe-specific attention. The body between these two extremities is an arc of pure form.