CROP RESIDUE, 48 TIMES

For Torino 2026, CROP RESIDUE, 48 TIMES is a wall-scale 6-by-8 portrait assembled from forty-eight identical 35 × 45 mm passport-photo rectangles, enlarged without interpolation to a 210 × 270 cm field. A crop script ingests a licensed passport-negative scan and calculates the standard biometric face window. It deletes that window, then permits only its rejected perimeter: paper border, truncated hair, shoulder fragment, cast shadow, flare, backdrop, dust, registration slip, and original crop marks. A second mask audits every tile; any surviving eye, nostril, mouth, or continuous facial oval causes that tile to be re-cropped from the source edge. The surviving rectangles are printed individually in archival pigment on uncoated natural-white paper, with no retouching or tonal normalization. They are pinned in a strict six-by-eight grid, separated by 3 mm of exposed wall. The grid reads as a face only at distance, while close viewing delivers forty-eight records of exclusion. A small live canvas at the lower margin cycles the mask’s rejection log during unattended hours; it does not alter the print. The work treats discarded image matter as an autonomous witness: evidence that persists before recognition is allowed.