A back-view seated figure, the body turned slightly from full back, the head lowered. The hair is gathered high on the skull and secured with a fastener drawn as a specific circular coiled mark — a small ornamental detail that reads almost as a jewel at the crown. Sidney's eye, consistent throughout the collection, finds the decorative within the anatomical.
The high ponytail creates a strong vertical element from the coiled fastener at the crown down through the loose tail falling along the spine. Combined with the spine's own descending line, the drawing has an unusual double vertical — bone and hair running parallel in the same direction. The composition is organized around this paired descent.
The body below the waist trails off into gestural marks, the folded lower figure described with less resolution than the upper. This suggests a timed pose — the artist working from the top down, the head and upper back resolved before time ran short. The shoulder blades and upper back are the most carefully drawn zones.
The coiled fastener carries particular resonance within the collection's broader spiral vocabulary — the wound, circular form appearing here not in a painting or a ceramic but as a small object drawn from life, incidental and precise. The spiral found wherever Sidney looked.