Dolma.

The poster arrives already framed, with the print mounted in its frame, so all you have to do is choose the wall. Inside the frame you see the portrait head-on: a red panda with reddish-brown fur and a white face, in her turquoise two-button knit dungaree, her pink-and-red block-pattern sweater, the yellow hood, and the beaded necklace with its fine gold chain, against a plain gray-green background. Nothing else around her. With the frame, the whole thing gains a clean edge and stands on the wall like a small window onto Dolma.

In her story, Dolma climbs to the very top of the cloud forest of the hills of Darjeeling and holds still, watching over from above what the rest of them miss. None of that is in the print: the portrait catches her head-on, face and shoulders, with no forest and no height. But knowing where she comes from changes how you look at the frame on the wall. She's a red panda from the eastern Himalayas, the red panda's own country, turned into a character in my Animal Kinhood series. If you want to know her fully, her biography tells it; and there are more of her neighbors in the rest of Yago Partal's collection.