An oil portrait of a girl in a dark blue dress, her eyes turned toward the viewer.

She is watching your cursor.

It watches the room.

Oil on any television, 2026

Put a nineteenth-century portrait on your TV and its eyes will follow whoever walks past. It runs on a phone you already own.

Open the portrait

Free to try. No app to install, no account.

Hanging it

  1. Open the portrait on your phone and allow the camera.
  2. Mirror your phone to the TV — AirPlay, Chromecast, or an HDMI cable.
  3. Stand the phone below the screen with its camera facing the room.

Two minutes. It works best in a frame, but a bare screen in a dark room does the job. Nothing you point the camera at leaves the phone.

The portraits

$14 for eight portraits

  • A girl in mourning blue, and her brother
  • A widow who has been waiting
  • Two children who share one face
  • Four more, painted for the dark
Buy the eight

One portrait is free, and yours to keep. You can also use your own painting, or a photo of someone — it will paint them for you.

Questions

Do I need to install anything?
No. It opens in your phone's browser and runs there.
Where does the camera footage go?
Nowhere. It is read on your phone and thrown away frame by frame. Nothing is recorded, uploaded, or sent to us.
Will it work with my TV?
Any TV you can mirror a phone to. If you can show photos on it, this works.
Does it need the internet once it's running?
Only to load the first time. After that it keeps working if the wifi drops.
Can I use a photo of a real person?
Yes. It finds the face, paints it into a period portrait, then takes over the eyes.