The direction of the gaze is withheld and relayed between...

The following text describes an artwork by Carrie Mae Weems that is shown below.

1. I think "her hand shielding her gaze" is wrong, because in the image the woman is actually keeping her hand in front of her mouth and not her eyes (gaze). Am I right?

2. I think "complicates" should be "complicate", because three things (1. the positioning of the black woman between two black men, 2. her hand shielding her gaze, and 3. his gaze turned to her) participate in this complication.

3. Does "The direction of the gaze is withheld and relayed between the men and the woman" man "The gaze flows between the men and the woman"?

Description:

In this series, Weems created photographic narratives that addressed the complexity of gendered relations in the everyday lives of black women. In one of the images, the positioning of the black woman between two black men – the poster of Martin Luther King on the wall and the man in the foreground at the table with whom she plays cards – her hand shielding her gaze, his gaze turned to her, complicates the structures of looking delineated by Mulvey, i.e. narcissistic identification and voyeurism. We look, but are unsure of the nature of the drama we are presented with. The direction of the gaze is withheld and relayed between the men and the woman. We are uncertain with whom should we identify, as the image represents internal desires and experiences between protagonists in such as way as to remove the fetishism that inheres to photographs of the black body,... (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).