PERFECTLY DERIVATED: A HUNDRED APPROACHES TO AN ARTWORK

is an experiment in which one hundred volunteers were invited to replicate a figurative woodblock print from my earlier work. Each participant examined the artwork and attempted to imitate it, indicating when they considered their version complete. At that moment, their hands were photographed under identical lighting, angle, distance, and environmental conditions.

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Despite these controlled parameters, each imitation diverged according to the participant’s perception, physical differences, and individual threshold of completion. The one hundred derivatives form a photographic series that reveals how difference persists despite uniform conditions.

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Three years after completing the video version of the project, I decided to create a book version to avoid its dependence on time. The dummy was completed in 2025 as part of the book development process.

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