The filters capture the skin surface in detail on easily accessible and smooth areas. To remove indentations and undercut areas, the filters need to be optimised.
The chemicals attach well to the proteins and visualise the skin structures in blue or a reddish gold.
How the portrait loses its three-dimensionality, while transporting as much information as possible into two dimensions, and the issue of recognition and acceptance by the recipients, still has to be worked out with more sitters.
A series of portraits will be created corresponding to 366 portraits for a leap year. They refer to the last verse of Gottfried Benn’s poem Only two things: “Whether roses, whether snow, whether seas, all that blossomed faded, there are only two things: the emptiness and the drawn self.”