Portrait of Marie
January 31, 2017 — 06:22 AM, Manhattan
Not directed. Not posed. Just light, timing, and trust
Archival pigment print.
Memory Capsule:
She’s inside the headset.
We’re behind the camera.
The print behind her watches us both.
The cable trails to the wall, not a machine.
No clear source. No fixed gaze.
Are we seeing her — or seeing what she sees?
She told me her name was Gabrielle.
It was Marie.
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21 x 30 Cm (8.5 x 12 ")
Portrait of Marie
January 31, 2017, 06:22 - Manhattan - USA
Edition of 10 + 2AP
€900 Unframed -
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61 x 91 cm ( 24 x 36 ")
Portrait of Marie
January 31, 2017, 06:22 - Manhattan - USA
Edition of 7 + 2AP
€2,200 unframed -
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100 × 150 cm (39 × 59 in)
Portrait of Marie
January 31, 2017, 06:22 - Manhattan - USA
Edition of 3 + 1AP
By Enquiry
Technical Notes
Printed on Canson® Infinity Baryta Prestige II 340gsm, a 100% alpha-cellulose and cotton fiber paper with a true baryta coating — favored for its rich blacks, luminous highlights, and archival stability.
Each print is hand-inspected, Embossed, stamped, signed, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Originally captured on an iPhone 6s at 06:22 AM in natural light.
Digitally resized and retouched with careful attention to tonal range and depth.
On Scale, Imperfection, and the Poetry of Pixels
Portrait of Marie was captured on an iPhone 6s — a moment barely over 1MB in weight. But when scaled, it refused to remain ordinary.
Digital noise, compression artifacts, and resolution loss combined to produce something unexpected: softness that evokes watercolor, texture that recalls oil, distortion that begins to feel like memory itself.
Is she dissolving? Or is the image revealing something we’re not supposed to see?
The boundaries of skin and space blur like reflections on water.
Flesh becomes vibration. Edges soften. Shadows bloom.
We are no longer just looking — we are seeing through.
What begins as technology ends as transformation.
The pixels dissolve — and what remains is presence, suspended in waveform.