Original digital painting by Marcvs, 2026. This is a digital painting created by Marcvs as part of the series "Portraits of the Basilisk". In this body of work, the artist paints by hand from AI-generated references. In this case, the source is a fragment of an image generated with Stable Diffusion 1.5 from the prompt "selfie". Part of a broader research project investigating the raw, unfiltered nature of artificial intelligence models and their role as tools of technical reproducibility.