Viola so far has been mostly just smiling when she saw me and not saying much. She seems to have some kind of job, but not part-time modelling like most of the other tenants in the hotel, because when I asked her if I could take her pictures for this documentary she looked at me first for five minutes with big question mark eyes if I was possibly taking the piss out of her, and then finally said, I should just take any pictures of her whenever I saw her in the hotel; thing is, she does seem to leave for work or whatever she does early in the morning, definitely earlier than most of the others, and comes back mid afternoon, but then usually vanishes directly into her room.

Finally I caught her early one evening in the lobby sitting in a quiet corner under a lamp on the floor, I think she had planned to read or study something, but her cat MiuMiu distracted her, demanding to play. These are the pictures:

Josiane Keller “Viola’s hand and MiuMiu” (2016)

Josiane Keller “Viola playing with MiuMiu” (2016)

Josiane Keller “Viola in dotted dress 2” (2016)

Josiane Keller “MiuMiu playing” (2016)

Josiane Keller “MiuMiu on her back” (2016)