I think you might be right about the putting someones chaaracter into the photos and paintings but how much autonomy; how much self-realisation and growth can that 'subject- person' have? The subjects go off... where? Do they have a whole world inwhich to live? Are they immortal? What's their link to the human that they are the subject of? Are they at the persons ' beck and call (that's a funny old saying too)?