Their life-size plaster presences are enhanced by Mr. Ahearn's skill at conveying in paint the subtle range of flesh tones.
Even though they aren't dancers, Kabboura Aït Ben Hmad, Fatima Elhanna and Naïma Sahmoud, possess an uncanny ability to move their ample flesh in subtle ways.
The aged duck breast rubbed with spice and salt, crunchy-skinned and rendered of most of its fat, is served with marinated turnips and a squiggle of bitter chocolate sauce that brought out the subtle gaminess of the flesh.
But after applying the milky substance to her face, she was left with a purple residue caked atop her flesh, a subtle reminder that, even with something as mundane as sun protection, people of color are too often disregarded.
Despite the films' enforced humiliations and clichés, Williams in the cinematic flesh displays a subtle pride, which in recent decades has come to be widely acknowledged and even, perhaps, wishfully exaggerated.
Local fishermen also catch tombo, or albacore, a species often used for canning, which has lean, light-pink flesh and a sweet, subtle taste, and boldly flavored aku, or skipjack, its prettily striped cousin.
Try skewering them on rosemary branches stripped of their needles; the flesh picks up a subtle hint of herb that nicely complements the smoke.
Everyone except the central woman is dressed in blue bottoms and flesh-colored tops with subtle tribal markings.
It's hardly subtle – the focus is on bodycon, thigh flesh and gold, real eyes-on-stalk stuff – with added Roseisms: chokers, always a waist, giant coat.
The flesh tones are also beautifully subtle, even containing unexpected delights such as minute veins visible in the exposed left breast of the woman in the middle.
