Les Trois Chaplin (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Victor Selin

Les Trois Chaplin is not only about cinema or nostalgia. It is about repetition, memory, and transformation — the same silhouette appearing three times, like an echo moving through history. Gold leaf turns the familiar figure into a relic, while the black ground and Auruscript (my personal script) fragments pull it out of ordinary portraiture and into another register: part icon, part manuscript, part artifact.

The work holds a paradox I keep returning to: what feels new is often not new at all. It is the past, reactivated. Reframed. Rewritten in another material.

Gold leaf catches the light differently from every angle, so the image does not stay fixed. It shifts between figure, surface, and script — between the remembered and the newly seen.

Materials used:

Gold leaf, premium black paper

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 58.42 x 73.66 x 5.08cm (framed)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Typographic
• Subject: People and portraits