A process where, as in alchemy, there is an increase in the value of the original. Through my visual experimentation, I probe the image (portrait) of the contemporary person. Today each of us lives more than one life—one real life and at least one virtual life—and I’m convinced that a person looks different in each of these lives. In my visual research, I find techniques by which I’m able to capture some of these different appearances of one person in a single image. One person—one photo; each parallel life recorded at a time. The process is time-consuming and difficult, but it yields compelling and various results. Sometimes it reminds me of a lab experiment.