Vanity

Vanity is an illustrated exploration of a feeling as old as humanity itself: vanity. Neither quite a vice nor quite a weakness, it fascinates as much as it unsettles — that obsession with one's own image, the need to be seen, remembered, admired.

The project starts from a line by Osamu Dazai: "Vanity is a poison that renders everything it touches ephemeral and futile." From that idea came a self-portrait set in an endless reflection, where the figure contemplates itself without end — convinced of its own perfection, sure it will be remembered, blind to time slipping away and everything around it dissolving.