Using carefully arranged pigment powder, Vik Muniz recreates Paul Gauguin's iconic Polynesian figure, blurring the boundary between painting and photography. The work is then captured as a C-print, transforming the delicate, tactile surface of raw colored pigments into a permanent photographic image. This piece from Muniz's *Pictures of Pigment* series investigates the layers of mediation between an artwork and its reproduction, questioning how materials and processes shape our perception of an image.