“As my relationship with #materials deepened, the visual language of the Northern Renaissance began to feel increasingly familiar and intuitive to me,” he said, stressing the #interdependence between the era’s #technical and #material innovations, as well as its “broader intellectual framework—one shaped by Erasmian Humanism and early empiricism.”

The resulting fictional portraits rebuild the present through the past and enable him to explore at an atomic level “how #medieval and #Renaissance imagery can remain relevant beyond the realm of fantasy or pastiche.”

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