A classical portrait photograph is obscured by four bold, gestural strokes of white paint applied directly across the image, fragmenting the face and creating a sense of deliberate concealment. The composition balances the warm, painterly quality of the gestural marks against the cool, controlled photographic base, producing a visual tension between revelation and erasure. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.