EGO SYSTEM

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I came from hyperrealism. From exaggerated detail (SZ Trilogy), from the tension toward perfection. Then came a crisis, and with it — emptiness.

From that emptiness I had to relearn everything: how to exist in the world, how to read reality, how to communicate. To do it, I took what I had close — real people, familiar faces — and tried to make them intelligible. I reduced each face to its essence, to the point where nothing more could be removed without losing the person.

Over time I understood I was building a grammar. A way of reading contemporary reality through what people choose to show — their ego, perhaps their fragilities, perhaps mine.

EGO SYSTEM is this: a mirror that uses others to understand itself, and in doing so produces something that concerns anyone who stops to look.

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