In this work I applied eye tracking to an old photograph of my father. The photograph itself was removed, leaving only the trace of the gaze, the sum of its movements condensed into a single frame. What remains is not the depicted figure but the record of looking: the choreography of an unconscious act of vision, which here becomes an autonomous object. The gaze turns into matter.

The resulting image, once stripped of the original photograph, was printed as a laser engraving on black zinc. The father’s portrait undergoes a series of transformations and shifts in medium, where processes of editing serve not only as creative tools but as means of psychic transformation, of processing memory and engaging with its mechanisms. The work no longer functions as photography in the documentary sense but as a new entity of memory, a gesture of seeing that has crystallized into form. It is a kind of secondary memory, a layer of consciousness born out of the act of looking.