Moving On

Inside the image.

A square cover is built around a close-up portrait of a pale-skinned woman, shown from the upper chest upwards. Her short, layered hair is swept into a high, tousled shape, with darker roots and warm copper, auburn and blonde highlights. She looks slightly down and towards the viewer’s left; her expression is composed and unsmiling. Her bare shoulders emerge from the bottom edge of the portrait, and the image cuts off the figure at the chest.

The portrait sits within a large, slightly tilted rectangular frame with a thin white border. Its top edge rises gently towards the right, while its side edges slant and the lower part extends beyond the bottom of the cover. The portrait’s dark, almost black background sets off the softly lit face and hair. A narrow burnt-orange vertical panel runs down the left side behind the frame. The remaining outer background is densely mottled with small flecks of red, gold, green and dark brown, giving it a grainy, speckled appearance. A fine pale outline also traces the upper edge of the cover’s black nameplate.

Across the upper left is a long, black nameplate angled slightly upwards to the right, with a pale outline. It overlaps the top of the portrait frame. Large, elegant serif lettering in a warm red-orange reads “Fiona Bennett”. Along the orange panel at the left, the white, widely spaced capitals “S A I N G O N” are set vertically and read from top to bottom. The design combines photographic portraiture with sharply bounded panels, borders and lettering.