When I saw her looking out of a Santa Fe shop window, I instinctively raised my camera and made this image. Softened by the reflective windowpane, she both looked and felt real at that first glance. But Santa Fe is a place of illusions -- what seems real at first, often proves to be unreal, the stuff of fantasy. Her hand in chin gesture and facial expression evokes great patience. She will continue to wait and watch from this window without movement, sight, or thought.