Goreuon / Best Of

Inside the image.

A square photographic cover shows a fair-skinned woman from the shoulders up against a nearly black background. Her face sits slightly left of centre, turned towards the viewer with a small, open smile. Long, voluminous blonde hair surrounds her face and spreads across much of the upper and left portions of the image; loose strands catch the light, while some fall over her forehead and partly across one eye. Her bare shoulders and upper chest are visible along the lower edge, with the right side of her body falling into shadow. The close crop leaves little space around her, and her bright hair forms an irregular, luminous outline against the dark ground.

The lighting is warm and directional, picking out golden and pale cream tones in her hair and the centre of her face. The image darkens markedly towards the right and lower edges, with a deep brown shadow around her shoulder. The overall palette is black and brown, set off by the light skin and blonde hair. The photograph has a soft, intimate studio-portrait feel, with fine hair strands and facial features visible against the smooth darkness.

Large, thin white lettering reading “elin Fflur” crosses the lower middle of the portrait, overlapping her hair and shoulder. The lowercase letters are slender and widely spaced, with the capital F standing prominently; the name stretches from the left of her face towards the right edge. Near the lower right, a compact block of pale yellow-green uppercase lettering reads “HARBWR DIOGEL”, followed by several smaller stacked lines: “LLWYBR LAWR I’R DYFFRYN”, “PAID Â CAU Y DRWS”, “YSBRYD ENFISEN”, and “ANGEL”. These lines sit over the dark shoulder and background; the small lettering is narrow and condensed. In the upper right, the word “GORAU” is set vertically in ochre-brown capitals, one letter beneath another, with a small matching symbol above it. The right-side typography occupies the remaining dark strip without obscuring the face.