Layered portraits by Gaia Alari Gaia Alari (Marie Esther) website (Marie Esther)Gaia Alari, also known under pseudonym Marie Esther, is an artist from Milan, Italy. Gaia is a medical student who spends her free time on improving her skills as an artist. In the series ‘Transparency’ she experiments with layered and overlapping drawings to create surreal, ethereal human portraits.