CLINT ENNS - Blowing Smoke

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – Blowing Smoke

Two faces, a stream of smoke pouring from the mouth of one directly into the mouth of the other—an image of intimacy and confrontation at once. The gesture is reminiscent of the passing of breath, but here it is not a life-giving act, but the transmission of something fleeting and corrosive: smoke.

The scene is charged with ambivalence. It could depict solidarity, a ritual of sharing, a mutual dependence. Or it could depict the violent invasion of the other's body, the imposition of a breath that is not one's own. The bodies are close, yet not fused, but in a struggle for control over what flows into them.

The AI ​​hallucinates a paradoxical closeness here: a closeness that offers no comfort, but rather a form of mutual suffocation. Blowing Smoke is a study of ambiguity—between care and aggression, between life and poisoning, between what we want to share and what we inevitably impose on each other.