Captured during the one day Loft Studies session, Fabrine is a stripped down portrait built on tension rather than pose. The photograph holds the charged neutrality of a model test, but the gaze and framing disrupt the genre’s functional purpose. The body becomes architectural, the gesture unreadable. This image later became a foundation for several print editions and licensing projects, and remains one of the key nodes linking the early photographic period to later mixed-media and geometric work.
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⚒ Materials & Creation Context:
Photographed outdoors in harsh, unfiltered daylight—overexposed sky, deep angular shadows—this image challenges conventions of flattering female portraiture. The setting is deliberately unremarkable: a quiet backyard, nondescript and domestic. But the subject is not. Her wide-legged stance, Pompidou-inspired updo, and cigarette posture cut through the environment like an intrusion. Made during a spontaneous model test, the photograph captures a mythic presence in a banal place—rendering the figure almost Brutalist in form and power.