The portrait exists neither on the body nor on the transparent surface, but in the unstable distance between them. The drawn image repeatedly approaches the figure without ever becoming identical to it, exposing identity as something that can never be fully possessed. Rather than revealing who the subject is, the work reflects the endless movement through which the self is constituted in relation to external systems of perception, language, and recognition. The face becomes less an image than a site where existence is continuously interpreted, displaced, and rewritten.
