Amidst the dense thicket of time, a face emerges: fragmented, entwined with the living foliage of memory. Its colors bleed and merge like the scattered remnants of a once vibrant crown circling her brow. A black halo, fractured yet glowing with a spectral, cold blue pentagon, frames eyes that look not into a past, but unyieldingly forward, witnessing both what was and what is yet to come. Her name is Freya. Neither fully of the past nor the present, she is a guardian poised between fertility and decay, love and war, magic and death. Her gaze, fixed and steadfast, carries the burden of all histories, a silent reckoning that unable to be turned away from, pressing urgently toward a future still to be shaped. The potency of her visage is not merely in what it reveals, but in the storm of time it summons: an eternal dialogue between spirit, history, and what lies beyond.

This multiple exposed diapositive film marks a new series of collaborations for Nicholé, after moving to Berlin and working in Monaco. Freya brings together various currents which would go on to form the beginning of the Second Machine Age.