Robert Beauvais – Now you see me Now you don’t

This photograph feels almost architectural in its restraint: quiet, symmetrical, and charged with a kind of latent presence. At first glance, it’s about the structure itself. Once you recognize it as a confessional, the image shifts from being about architecture to being about voice, secrecy, and interior life. The shadow on the wall becomes even more interesting in this context. It starts to feel less like a formal element and more like a kind of echo. A residue of presence. Almost like the accumulation of past confessions, or the lingering trace of those who have occupied that space. It’s softer, less defined, but in some ways more evocative than the object itself.

Karen Gourley Lehman - Untitled

This one is deeply observational, but also quietly psychological, like a moment caught between attention and withdrawal. The seated figure anchors the image. Her posture - legs drawn in, gaze lowered - suggests inwardness, even a kind of guarded introspection. She’s physically present but emotionally elsewhere, absorbed in something we can’t access. The framing of the chair and deck gives it a domestic familiarity, but the mood resists comfort. There’s also an interesting dynamic of attention. The seated figure looks down, avoiding both the camera and the other person. The moving figure doesn’t fully register either, reduced to gesture and motion. It’s a scene of proximity without connection, shared space without shared awareness.

What’s immediately compelling is the doubling: the painter and the painted, the observer and the observed. But the two aren’t equal. The figure at the easel is more solid, more present, while the image on the canvas is softened, unresolved, almost slipping away. It suggests that representation is, perhaps, a negotiation, never quite complete. What’s especially poignant is how the face in the painting resists clarity. It’s there, but not fully resolved. That ambiguity feels intentional, as if the work is less about capturing likeness and more about the act of searching for it.