坐在地下的女人

Although many of the Shelter Drawings showed groups of people, some concentrated on individuals. In this picture a lone woman sits apart from the other shelterers. Swathed in layers of clothing, she stares out of the picture, anxiously clasping her hands. This sense of tension is heightened by the abrupt jump from foreground to background and the network of nervous, scratchy lines that describe the figure. The apparent absence of period detail led some commentators to interpret such figures as timeless symbols of fear, vulnerability and endurance.