"Nate (with chromatic aberration)" presents a portrait rendered in an intimate scale, where colored pencil, ink, watercolor, acrylic, and oil converge on paper to produce a surface of remarkable layered complexity. Robert Martin employs the optical phenomenon of chromatic aberration as both subject and formal strategy, introducing the color fringing associated with lens distortion to destabilize the image in subtle but affecting ways. The result is a figure that appears simultaneously fixed and in flux, as though caught between analog presence and digital mediation, a tension that speaks directly to contemporary questions about how portraiture functions in an image-saturated culture. Martin's technique rewards close inspection, as each medium contributes a distinct quality to the whole. The watercolor passages lend translucency and breath, while the oil and acrylic layers introduce opacity and weight, and the colored pencil work traces the kind of deliberate, intimate mark-making rarely associated with mixed-media painting. The subject, Nate, is rendered with evident care and psychological attentiveness, the chromatic distortion serving not to obscure but to reframe, drawing the viewer's eye to the constructed nature of likeness itself. At 21.3 by 28.6 centimeters, this is a work conceived for close, private encounter rather than gallery spectacle, and its modest scale amplifies the intensity of its effects. Signed by the artist and currently offered through 1969 Gallery, it represents a confident, considered addition to any collection with an interest in the evolving possibilities of works on paper and contemporary portraiture.