Faceless Self-Portrait integrates a perforated thermoplastic mesh, clinical 2.4 mm gauge, reoriented as structural armature, not as testimony. The mesh bands remain visible beneath the resin, bonded to the linen and painted in cobalt and ultramarine to integrate them into the surface without erasing them.
The scar remains visible as a formal decision. This is not trauma on display, it is survival encoded into the material. The face is absent: the mesh describes the facial contour with greater precision than any image.
This is the keystone piece of Living Systems, the one that sustains the logic of the entire series.
