I ran with it and have a small book's worth of images from that period.(posted 8590 days ago)I could not "pose" this person, as she was not a model, and this was not a photo shoot. This is an autobiographical image, and so is a single point in an ongoing body of work, i.e. me living my life (with a camera).
However, the critical distance is supplied in the edit (years later), and I have yet to assemble all the images from variously well defined periods of my life into a cohesive exhibit (book? This woman would certainly be a chapter or two). Currently, "Mid-Career Retrospective"s are quite popular. If I could afford it, it would be a lot of fun to put one together. I'll let you know (don't hold your breath)... t