Portraits 14

Kay

Kay
Kay in an electric-blue dress and wellington boots on an algae-covered tidal flat at low water, hand on hip, gazing upward; stranded boats and a yellow barge behind her.

She wonders why

Kay in the blue dress, seen close, looking up and away to one side; a beached boat and the empty grey mudflat behind her.

Up and away

Kay in the blue dress drawing on a cigarette, smoke curling upward, glancing to the side; the pale estuary blurred behind her.

Smoke break

A small figure of Kay standing alone atop a long concrete sea wall, dwarfed by a vast cloud-filled sky over a drained, cracked estuary.

Dreams run dry

Kay seen from behind in a green cardigan and blue dress, arms outstretched, one hand on the rusted hull of a beached barge; a trail of deep footprints leads across the mud to where she stands.

One day she'll fly away

Black-and-white frame of Kay laughing with her head thrown back, boots sunk into estuary mud, footprint holes around her.

Humour