vertical close-up portrait, ancient weathered girl who appears simultaneously young and impossibly old gazing at the viewer with eyes that have witnessed the birth and death of dynasties, upper body and face filling the frame, extremely long silver-white hair in a simple Taoist nun style held by a single ancient wood hairpin darkened with centuries of oil and wear with the hair falling past the frame bottom and appearing to merge with mist, deep black eyes with no visible iris boundary just endless depth like looking into a well that has no bottom as the strongest focal point, face that reads as a young woman of perhaps twenty but with an expression and bearing that feels …
