It starts buttoned.



She starts in the doorway with the shirt still buttoned, the pool and the lawn hard and bright behind her, and the glass doing what glass does to afternoon sun.

Then it comes off a shoulder. Then further. She moves inside to the white chair where the light is softer, and somewhere in there she stops arranging herself.

The shirt is the whole session. Nine frames is how long it took to get from buttoned to gone, and nothing else in the room changed at all.