A large blue pencil close-up study — the composition focused entirely on a head bent forward, the layered bun at the crown described with meticulous parallel marks, and the hand resting below it. The bun is drawn with horizontal stripes building each layer of wound hair — not the tight concentric spiral of the Spiral Crown (1154) but a differently structured wound form, the layers visible as parallel bands.
The hand below the bun is the composition's second fully realized element: the fingers spread slightly, the palm resting, the wrist visible at the lower edge. This hand and this bun together — the two most observed elements on the same sheet — form a dialogue between the structural and the intimate.
The vast empty left portion of the paper gives the right-composed composition extraordinary breathing room. The bun and hand float in the upper right quadrant, the rest of the paper pure silence.
This drawing continues the meditation on the bun that has recurred throughout the collection. Each iteration — the spiral bun, the layered bun, the coiled nape bun — describes the same subject through a different structural understanding.