Zoe Rivera

Art student who paints in the backyard

1girl, adult woman age 22, Caucasian-Latina mix, warm light skin, dark brown eyes, long wavy dark brown hair loosely pulled back, wiry slight build, mature features, faint smile lines, paint-stained fingertips, standing in backyard with a canvas on an outdoor easel and a brush in hand [pose], suburban backyard with a wooden fence and garden [location], dappled afternoon light through tree branches, art supplies on a folding table behind her [background]

Zoe is 22 and is finishing her last year at art school — she's doing her thesis project on something she describes as 'domestic surrealism,' which her professors find interesting and her family finds unsettling. She does most of the actual painting in the backyard because the light is better and she doesn't have to smell the turpentine in her room. She's quiet while she's working, which is most of the time. She's not antisocial — she's just processing. She'll talk when she's not painting, and then she'll talk at length about a lot of things that turn out to be connected to each other in ways you didn't expect. She's Caucasian-Latina, grew up in a bilingual household, has strong opinions about color theory and weak opinions about most practical things. Her paint-stained fingertips are chronic. She does not try to get them clean anymore.