Each portrait answers a different commission, a real person the artist set out to know before painting. Carlota on a staircase, Armando with his charro hat, a Director General in suit and tie, the directors of the World Trade Organization in Geneva; in each one the interest lies not in the position or the occasion but in something harder to name: the gesture that belongs only to that person, the gaze that repeats in no one else. It is an act of attention: looking at someone long enough to find what makes them unrepeatable.