This painting depicts a human figure with light skin from the neck down to the ankles, with their arms crossed behind their back, facing us. The figure is wearing a bright red dress with long sleeves. A pair of scissors floats in the air above the neck, and a few thin, horizontal splatters of red paint suggest blood. Below the figure, there is a black, rounded form with a pale line sticking out from it, which appears to be a severed head and neck seen from the back. The background is plain white paper, and it is crossed by several short, horizontal lines of what appear to be sewing stitches in pale pink or white thread. The edges of the paper are rough.