Influencer Culture | Silverbourne Selfie Figure Print

Influencer Culture is a figure study art print from the Silverbourne collection by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece stages its subject in front of a mirror or a large framed panel, one arm raised behind the head in the geometry the phone camera has taught a generation to fall into, a mauve robe slipping off one shoulder, white briefs, ankle socks. In his other hand, a phone with a red case. His gaze is on the screen, not on the room. Where the earlier Silverbourne plates carried a torch and then a lyre, Influencer Culture hands the modern archetype the instrument he actually uses. The pose is the point. The mirror is the point. The audience is somewhere outside the frame, and the classical body has learned to arrange itself accordingly. The joke is affectionate. Silverbourne's argument, plate by plate, is that the vocabulary of self-presentation has not changed anywhere near as much as we think it has, only the tools. A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, classicists with a sense of humour, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.