 It's to the best of our knowledge, I'm Ann Strainchamps. Before family photos or school pictures or Instagram, there were hand-drawn and painted portraits, and artists who specialized in capturing faces and personalities. Those old master portraits can be mesmerizing and mysterious, both in what they convey and in what they leave to the imagination. I was making costumes. I was getting into character and actually performing these people that I was encountering. We do think we're being given more than just an image of what they look like, but some feeling for who they were. Today, on to the best of our knowledge, we talk with a philosopher, a musician and a novelist about falling in love with a face. She looks worried. She looks anxious. And, crucially for me, she looks as if she has something she wants to say. Reframing the portrait.