Medium Studies
2026
Oil on digital Canvas
Variable dimensions
These are oil portraits extended into living images which hold the elusive essence of singularity. This dual nature has let me explore what is deliberate and what is unconscious. Pigments and pixels. Code and brushstrokes. Subjective and objective.
Each digital portrait is first the material trace of an intimate dialog, and then, when animated, into a recurring reenactment of the psychological exercise of recognition.
The sitters are mostly men, and the portraits take up that imbalance as their subject: the construction of masculinity at a moment when its crisis is hard to miss. What is being shaped from its pieces? What needs to be preserved? What transformed? What shed?
The portraits hold all these questions open by refusing to settle on an answer.
These portraits continue an exploration started with Hybrid Studies in 2025 around ways of bridging traditional and digital portrait making, by combining computer vision and plotting to the practice of oil paintings.
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