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Portraits

Invented Faces – Drawn Encounters.

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My ink portraits are created freely and intuitively, without a reference, yet they are echoes of real encounters.

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I gather impressions of people and combine them with imagination and humor to create new faces.

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Each title acts as a prompt, inviting the viewer to invent their own story—one that is free to grow as they look at the piece.

Some portraits are available as pigment prints on Hahnemühle paper in:

© 2025 Kadie Schmidt-Hackenberg

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