Behind Closed Doors

Zelda's friend, Song, is small and slim with thick black hair, high flat cheekbones and dark exotic eyes. She's half-Chinese--a heritage she tries to play up as much as possible by wearing heavy jade beads and round Mr. Moto glasses.

Song and Zelda were college roommates. (This was back before Zelda was Zelda...back when she was still known as Miriam, and studied finance, and slept with men.) Song was in art school. She majored in fashion design, and made elaborate costumes out of shower curtains and neckties that she found at the Goodwill, but she never really got the hang of construction, so she switched to photography, and she's done fairly well. (She just finished a series called "Behind Closed Doors," which are pictures of the inside of people's medicine cabinet mounted next to a picture of the inside of their refrigerator.) She has a gallery that shows her work a couple of times a year, but it doesn't really pay the bills. She did weddings for a while, but the endless sea of bridesmaid dresses finally got to her. So now she does portraits of dogs.