SUPERPOSITION  

(Collaborativion: Y2 Art x Gary Thomson)

A portrait is a lie.

Any portrait, frozen in a single moment, is a lie because it tries to convince us that identity is something static. Defined. Singular.

But the soul is not a point. It is a cloud.

This video is an attempt to create a true portrait. A psychic daguerreotype. Here, the emulsion is the ether itself, and the light is the inner state. We are not seeing a woman in motion. We are seeing all of a woman’s states of being, coexisting simultaneously in a single point of spacetime.

Here, she looks directly into the lens—this is her Strength, her will to exist, her “I am here.” And there, her ghost, an imprint of pain, turns away. Here is the shadow of her rage, blurred into a scream. There is the phantom of her tenderness, as faint as a fragrance.

Each movement does not replace the last but is layered upon it, creating ghostly, vibrating strata. It is an alchemy of memory and premonition. The face splits in two, in three, dissolving into a spectrum of emotions, because it is impossible to focus on one version of the self without acknowledging the existence of all the others.

The background—a pink and violet haze—is the color of the inner cosmos, a limbo where all these entities meet. The black silhouette is the body, the anchor that, with its last ounce of strength, holds this swarm of personalities together.

This is not a story about finding oneself. It is a story about the courage to be all of one’s “selves” at once. To acknowledge that your true portrait is not a sharp photograph, but this vibrating, restless, multilayered imprint.

Performance / Muse: @yuliyayurchevskaya

Visuals / Direction: @photogt9edits