If you follow the link to his gallery site, it gets way nuttier. For these portraits, he casts his own crayons out of wax and artist’s pigment before stacking them. He also has a series of “Color Word” works described thusly:
Christian Faur developed a coding system with 26 distinct colors, each representing a letter in the English alphabet. The highest frequency letters (vowels) were mapped with the most saturated colors using the RGB color system. The next highest were based on cyan, purple, pink and gray. Lesser degrees of shade, hue and saturation were used for the remaining letters. These paintings are rendered in vertical strips of encaustic color that relate to his color alphabet system. The widths of the color strips conform to the length of the sound of a spoken word.
This is “Formaldehyde Cabbage”.
