Irene Ardan

Red

The mark and the maker

The handprint is evidence of contact, not decoration. She keeps hold of the camera while another mark sits across her face. These two frames keep both sides of a portrait visible: the person being looked at, and the person who can look back.

Woman in a red dress with a painted handprint on her face holding a camera, smoke rising in the dark
Woman in red light lying back and exhaling smoke against an evening sky

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