When Almond visited the studio of British painter Lucian Freud (1922–2011), he encountered a precariously balanced stack of paint-stained fabrics. At first glance, the pile appeared disorderly, yet its colors shifted with the changing daylight, as if quietly breathing in the absence of its master. Almond photographed the pile with his smartphone and used the digital images as the basis for a series of lithographs. The title of the series derives from the five stages of the “psychosexual development theory” proposed by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Lucian’s grandfather, who regarded sexual desire as the fundamental human energy from infancy. From this subject, lacking any physical body, a paradoxical sense of energy emerges.

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