In Nicolas de Largillierre’s Study of Hands (1715) disembodied limbs surface from murky oils. The painting conveys Caucasian flesh's ghostly essences: slender wrists of bone china white, bluish palms, unfurling veins of green and pink glow within the darkness. Inspired by Legillierre’s painting, this is a series of ‘diptychs’, where classical poses metamorphose into the contemporary. Art-historical antecedents collide with the kinds of fleeting, quotidian encounters we experience each day.