Hand-drawn portraits turned digital with ink, tea, and memory. A tribute to faces, stories, and connection through art.

“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.” Quote By Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron Lugar: París, France Instagram: @dionmarv Street Portrait

_ "I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should

_ "A good book has no end."_ R.D. Cumming Lugar: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany Instagram: @dionmarv Street Portrait (VII)

"What I like about you is the serious way you make up nonsense.” Fragment taken from his short novel titled The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother, Gabriel

"Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space". The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald Lugar: Buenos Aires, Argentina Instagram: @dionmarv Street Portrait (VI)

. . . ...That's what it's all about, to collide with others that show you things you don't see, that show how to see with different eyes Mariani Sierra Fragmento de Ideas Viajando: Radiografía de un Corazón

The idea that one day we look down and see the crooked steps that we have taken from a more secure place, must be something precious. . . . Emily Dickinson . . . Lugar: Strasbourg, France Instagram: @dionmarv

I think we all have a little of that beautiful madness that keeps us going when everything around is so insanely sane. . . Cortázar . . Lugar: Brussels, Belgium Instagram: @dionmarv Street Portrait (III)

When photographing people in color, photograph their clothes. When photographing people in black and white, photograph their soul . . Ted Grant . . Lugar: Stuttgart, Germany Instagram: @dionmarv Street

Today everything exists to culminate in a photograph . . Susan Sontag . . Lugar: Musee du Louvre Instagram: @dionmarv Street Portrait (II)

"...then I wonder if a memory is something we have or something we have lost forever" . . . José Pérez Instagram: @dionmarv Street portrait (I)