"Past, Present, Forever” 2024 |

Dimensions: 130 x 97 cm

Medium: Oil on linen canvas

Artist: Victor Seehund

Past, Present, Forever (2024) by Victor Seehund is a haunting confrontation with the shifting architecture of identity. Painted in oil on linen at a commanding 130 × 97 cm, this work stands like a monument to the tension between who we were, who we are, and who we imagine ourselves becoming. A single figure—part portrait, part apparition—emerges from darkness with a gaze that cuts through time.

The facial features are both vivid and obscured: a sharp mouth, ghostlike eyes, flesh brushed with light and then scraped, smeared, interrupted. Seehund’s technique is purposeful—he paints and unpaints, revealing and concealing at once. The result is a face that is in constant flux, flickering between recognition and distortion, elegance and erasure.

There’s an almost mythic resonance here. The black void of the background isolates the figure entirely, forcing you into an intimate and unsettling proximity. This is not a portrait for passive viewing—it stares back, insists on being read, and resists simple interpretation. The title invites you to consider time as a collapsing thread, and the image itself becomes a vessel for all the selves we carry and shed.

For collectors drawn to psychological portraiture and conceptual depth, Past, Present, Forever is a cornerstone work—an image that transcends its medium to become a mirror, a riddle, and a presence that refuses to fade.