Motion Portraits

Also called Anicca or Anitya, impermanence is one of the essential doctrines and a part of three marks of existence in Buddhism. The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is “transient, evanescent, inconstant”. The series of images, some drawn, some digital, focusing on the portrait of an individual in motion. How do we know someone, even when they’re moving? What makes someone identifiable? People in motion belie the truth of impermanence.

All images, both drawn with pastel or created digitally, were generated first as photographs of the subjects in motion. In many cases, multiple photographs of the same subject were overlaid with one another to get the desired effect.