NONTRON presents a face constructed through digital fragmentation—formed from dots, grain, and discontinuities that suggest both emergence and instability. The image appears less as a fixed identity than as a surface in the process of being assembled.
The work frames this condition as a shift in how identity is formed. The self is no longer grounded in a singular, stable structure, but distributed across systems of representation and mediation. What appears as a face is contingent, recalculated through layers of data and interpretation.
This instability positions identity within a transitional state. The figure is neither fully human nor fully digital, but operates within the overlap between the two—where boundaries between organism and system become increasingly difficult to define.
The piece isolates this condition as a broader principle: that as technology becomes an environment rather than a tool, identity evolves into a dynamic interface, shaped continuously by the systems through which it is expressed.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
This photopolymer intaglio etching is hand pulled in a limited edition of 6 copies on 300 gram Hahnemuller etching paper. Plate size: 7 cm x 10.5 cm (2.7 X 4.1 inches) paper size: ~30 cm x 40 cm (~12 X 16 inches). Each print is numbered and signed and sold without a frame.
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Publication Date: September 4, 2025
Print Size: 7 x 10,5cm
Paper Size: 30 x 40cm
Composition No.: 10
NONTRON presents a face constructed through digital fragmentation—formed from dots, grain, and discontinuities that suggest both emergence and instability. The image appears less as a fixed identity than as a surface in the process of being assembled.
The work frames this condition as a shift in how identity is formed. The self is no longer grounded in a singular, stable structure, but distributed across systems of representation and mediation. What appears as a face is contingent, recalculated through layers of data and interpretation.
This instability positions identity within a transitional state. The figure is neither fully human nor fully digital, but operates within the overlap between the two—where boundaries between organism and system become increasingly difficult to define.
The piece isolates this condition as a broader principle: that as technology becomes an environment rather than a tool, identity evolves into a dynamic interface, shaped continuously by the systems through which it is expressed.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
This photopolymer intaglio etching is hand pulled in a limited edition of 6 copies on 300 gram Hahnemuller etching paper. Plate size: 7 cm x 10.5 cm (2.7 X 4.1 inches) paper size: ~30 cm x 40 cm (~12 X 16 inches). Each print is numbered and signed and sold without a frame.
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Publication Date: September 4, 2025
Print Size: 7 x 10,5cm
Paper Size: 30 x 40cm
Composition No.: 10