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Remanence

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Remanence is concerned with what persists when an image can no longer resolve.

When the human face is recorded across time rather than captured in a single instant, identity fractures. What remains is not a portrait, but a residue — evidence of form stretched, repeated, and displaced by duration.

Faces as signal

Remanence treats the human face as a spatial signal rather than a subject. Facial form exists as geometry, carried by points of light rather than surfaces or texture.

By refusing photographic density, the work prevents identity from stabilising. The face remains legible, but never fully present.

Recording, not rendering

Each image is constructed as a record of exposure rather than a rendered illustration. Motion across time is allowed to accumulate, producing visible red‑shift and blue‑shift echoes.

These spectral afterimages are not effects applied to an image, but consequences of duration acting on form.

Residual impressions

Remanence presents what remains after time interferes with representation. Identity dissolves, but structure persists.

The work stands as evidence — not of a person, but of form enduring across time.

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