A man with dark brown skin sits or reclines on the far side of a fallen, ash-white tree trunk in this horizontal watercolor painting. The trunk angles from just above the lower left corner of the sheet down and off the edge of the bottom right corner. The trunk is smooth with some fine cracks running along its length. Shorn roots flare out at the left end. The man sits near the roots so only his face and upper shoulders are visible as he looks to our right in profile. He has high, slightly hollow cheekbones and a prominent, pointed jaw. His upper lip is darker than the lower, and his mouth is closed. He wears a khaki-colored, floppy-brimmed hat and a high-collared white shirt. A hook affixed to the end of a tube, perhaps a prosthetic or tool, at the end of a long strap with a silver buckle is draped over the trunk. Grass and a few plants grow in the lower left corner of the composition, on our side of the tree, and a velvety, moss-green hill swells in the distance against the blank white sheet. We look sharply down onto the roofs of a house and barn in the deep distance, visible just over the edge of the tree near the lower right.