The only portrait that appeared OOF to me was that of Susan Hurley. The rest look fine. Was there another one in particular you thought was OOF?

The artist does appear to use a large aperture (or some other technique) to control depth of field. So there are portraits where the background is blurred, or in some, even parts of the subject (hands vs face). But, overall, they're mostly all in focus.

Being a little out of focus and rambling around is a philosophers thing.

Using a lens with a shallow depth of field to create a bokeh effect.

They're not?

This photographer is employing an unusually shallow depth of field in some of these photos. You gotta have a gimmick.

They're all taken by the same photographer and thus exhibit a consistent style