The portraits are failed reconstructions of Soldiers based on the data acquired from various folk stories, poems and oral histories from regions of Germany, France, Switzerland and other parts of Europe. The reconstructions were attempted using a computer Neural Network and Unsupervised Machine Learning algorithm. These soldiers who fought, protected and guarded Europe through various epochs and times ranging from colonial times to World Wars belonged to various regions from around the world such as South Asia. Australia, Malaysia, etc.
Or they can be fictional and so can be their process of making, their folk tales and the computer algorithms used to generate them.