Lightness of Being — Freedom Edition
2021
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About This Work
Lightness of Being — Freedom Edition (2021) is Chris Levine's iconic portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II captured with eyes closed, an image that has become one of the defining royal portraits of the 21st century. Originally photographed in 2004 during an eight-second exposure for a Jersey Heritage commission marking 800 years of royal allegiance, the work is a profound meditation on stillness, presence, and the quiet majesty of a monarch at rest. This Freedom Edition — a diasec-mounted giclée print on aluminium composite panel, 90 x 70 cm, numbered from the edition of 1000 and carrying Levine's digital signature — was released in 2021 to mark the artist's ongoing exploration of light, consciousness, and timeless portraiture. Condition reports and provenance available upon request.
About the Artist
Chris Levine is a light artist with a multi-disciplinary approach that harnesses a diverse array of technology with the intention of revealing the ways in which light is fundamental to human experience. Levine uses a cross-disciplinary approach working across many fields including music, performance...
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