The Portrait · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
THE ORIGINAL BOOKS ↓The Portrait · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
On the cover of The Cut-Out Portrait, the motif is identified as “The Incomplete Portrait.” Someone has been cut out of the 1912 family portrait. An intact photographic plate reveals a fifth woman. The sequel shifts the question from who erased her to how families, institutions, and archives construct, protect, abridge, or contaminate a story.
On the cover of The False Missing, the motif is identified as “The Crossed-Out Portrait.” A private investigator finds the people you remember—the ones who do not exist.
The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.
Cycles, Series & AnthologyIn the 1912 portrait, someone has disappeared beneath the scissors. In Camille Vallet’s family, the frame has always been there. They knew the faces, the places, the story passed down with the picture. But a cut turns the portrait into a question. Then an intact photographic plate reveals a fifth woman: the one the family had stopped seeing.
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Cycles, Series & AnthologyThe agency’s wall connects clues. Outside, people already see a settled truth. A badge, a box, a copied image: in Rémanence’s latest case, connections multiply faster than they can be checked. Maud and Hugo must follow the evidence while documenting how it is distorted. Their own work becomes a story in the public eye.
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