The acts that make us.
Operator
Price: £227.00 Rating: 5 out of 5, 1 reviewInsured shipping to United Kingdom £22
- Medium
- Giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic
- Size
- 43 × 65 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 63, hand-numbered
- CoA
- Included
- Signed
- Hand-signed
- Printed
- Atelier Kalle Hellzén, Stockholm
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| Flush Mount | Shadow Box | |
|---|---|---|
| Mounting | Flush mount (no air gap between print and glass). | Spacer mount (an internal spacer creates an air gap, ensuring no surface contact between the print and the glass). |
| Glass | 2 mm float glass. | Museum Glass. 2 mm hand-cut, UV-resistant, non-glare art glass. Protects the surface while maintaining absolute optical clarity and reducing reflections. |
| Construction | Solid Swedish pine with a 15 mm (0.6 in) face and a 30 mm (1.2 in) depth. | Solid Swedish pine with a 15 mm (0.6 in) face and a 30 mm (1.2 in) depth. |
| Frame size | 29 × 43 cm (11.4 × 16.9 in) and 43 × 65 cm (16.9 × 25.6 in) | 29 × 43 cm (11.4 × 16.9 in) and 43 × 65 cm (16.9 × 25.6 in) |
In Operator, the figurative is distilled into a different kind of portraiture. Identity is not treated as confession, it is treated as pattern. The “I” is not a noun, it is an act. The self is not representation, but continuation. Much art performs identity. This refuses it. The self is behaviour, and what repeats becomes legacy.
The work does not ask to be decoded as a message. It wants to be felt as an after-effect. Intention can begin movement, but it does not contain the result. Meaning arrives while we go about our lives, as consequence beyond intention. What happens becomes the author, the part that remains after it has passed through time, material, and system.
The work is painted by hand on a screen and realised as archival pigment prints on metallic fine art paper. This transition is not just a production step, it is part of the authorship. The surface behaves like skin, holding marks, shifts, and texture, because what is real needs to have friction.
| Paper | Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic |
|---|---|
| Weight | 340 gsm, 100% cotton |
| Tone | Natural white, without optical brighteners |
| Surface | Sophisticated surface texture with a unique, silvery-shimmering metallic effect |
| Archival | Acid and lignin-free |
| Standard | ISO 9706 compliant, museum quality for high age resistance |
| Ink | Ultrachrome® Pro12 Pigment Ink |
Handle by the edges. Keep out of direct sunlight and high humidity.
Subtle variation between screen and print is expected; the physical surface of the metallic carries depth and tonal behaviour that screens cannot reproduce.
Please note that digital screens cannot perfectly replicate physical pigments; the print itself is the definitive reference for color and texture. Subtle variations in character are inherent.