Original digital painting by Marcvs, 2026. Part of the "Portraits of the Basilisk" series. 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.