Biography

The portrait here is a bed shot with no pretense of narrative. She lies back on white sheets, one arm out of frame, her head turned away from the lens and her mouth open. The body is nude and oiled, so the light breaks across the chest, the stomach and the thighs in hard, wet highlights. Behind her, a blue textured wall and a headboard printed with yellow, orange and green geometry. A small multicolour tattoo sits on her left shoulder. Another person's hand rests at the lower left, which turns a solo pose into a scene.

Her scenes were explicit and narrow in range: blowjobs, vaginal sex and anal sex with men, solo masturbation, and softcore scenes with women. The frame that carried them was small and natural, a 32C chest on a 32-28-37 body, and the styling stayed close to the girl-next-door brief rather than the lacquered look of the period's big-budget shoots. That register depends on the illusion of ordinariness, and she held it well. Two years is not much time, but the scenes are what they are, and they are still in circulation.