EDITION INFORMATION

This portrait is available as part of a strictly limited, artist-signed edition across two print sizes. Each print is individually numbered and produced to archival standards.

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Medium: 18 x 23 inches : 3/25

Large: 28 x 35 inches : 1/10

Once all editions are sold, no further prints will be made.

ABOUT THE WORK

Deceptively understated in composition, The Soul Catcher engages with the iconography of portraiture at its most distilled. With his softly parted lips, open collar, and diffident gaze, the subject appears at once entirely modern and oddly timeless. The symmetry of the frame — frontal, fixed, and emotionally reticent — calls to mind the conventions of studio portraiture from the early photographic era, yet the affect here is resolutely contemporary. There is no theatricality in his stance; no overt emotion in his eyes. Instead, the work cultivates a kind of magnetic neutrality, daring the viewer to project meaning where none is declared.

It is this ambiguity that lends the piece its charge. The faint glint of a chain, the careful grooming of the hair, the exposed collarbone: each detail suggests intimacy without offering access. The subject does not meet our gaze so much as absorb it, allowing himself to be seen while withholding all interpretive cues. In this way, The Soul Catcher becomes a meditation on portraiture itself — not as revelation, but as mirror. The viewer is left to confront not the sitter’s identity, but their own impulse to decode it. What emerges is a work of studied stillness and elegant restraint: a portrait that, true to its name, captures the soul by leaving it just out of reach.

ARTWORK FORMAT AND MATERIALS

Each fine art print is produced on Hahnemühle Baryta Rag — a museum-grade, 100% cotton archival paper renowned for its luxurious surface and luminous detail. Prints are surrounded by a 1.5 inch white border and are hand-signed and editioned by the artist. Works are shipped unframed to ensure preservation and collector flexibility.

PRICING AND SELECTION

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COLLECTOR NOTES

• ✅ Signed and numbered by Troy Schooneman

• ✅ Archival, museum-grade print quality

• ✅ Strictly limited edition — no reprints once sold out

• ✅ Certificate of Authenticity available upon request

• ✅ Ships professionally packaged and unframed

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