Thomas
While old-master portraiture traditionally elevated the carefully staged nobility, the realist movement sought to capture everyday subject matter without exaggeration. This work emerged spontaneously from an impulse to capture an ordinary moment. In retrospect, it serves as a meditation on mundane presence and the quiet authenticity of everyday life.
The work documents my brother Thomas glancing up from his phone— a gesture that feels both particular to our time and timeless, embodying the small, unremarkable moments that make up how we actually live.
Thomas would say it's my most aesthetically pleasing work to date.