'The Stranger' by Kastor Yevich was once the most famous painting in the world. Below are the only known references to it in the Archive.

'…After this lengthy hiatus, Yevich determined to do one last painting. They began in 1755, but the process was fraught with difficulties, arguments with suppliers and an obsessive perfectionsism about the subject matter. In 1765, ten years after first touching the canvas, Yevich completed their masterpiece. A year later, they were dead.'

– Excerpt from 'A Who's Who of Art', by Aarno Welikja (2055)

'…When compared with the work of her immediate predecessors – such as Yevich's magnum opus, The Stranger – Sahi's “self-portrait” seems to mock and ridicule their efforts. The similarity in style is too close to be coincidental, with a very deliberate mimicry of Yevich's scrawling hand. But the difference in composition is startling, most noticeably in the lack of any discernible human subject, despite the title, Self-portrait. Where Yevich's title subtly asked questions of the viewer, challenging them to go beyond the surface reading, Sahi seems to completely disregard any connection whatsoever between title and artwork…'

– Excerpt from “The Orlema Weekly”, by T. Mertz (1788), cited by 'Amrita Sahi: In Revolution' (2072)

– Sketch by Raul Shen (2103)