hard for money

Exhaustion and unbending endurance: the forward-bent profile in the wedge of diagonal lines carries a strong visual sense of physical burden, hard labour and uncompromising resistance. It describes a state of existential struggle – the face stares stubbornly ahead into the cold blue, while the neck has to bear the heavy, rusty mass of colour behind it. It is the visual equivalent of the proverbial gritting of teeth.

Sizing up from a distance; looking, eyeing.