My contribution consists of one hundred works in total - one per box - each drawn by hand following the same template. The edition is inspired by the marbled patterns of a cabinet at Ars Aemula Naturae, an academy in Leiden where I often posed. 

While drawing, I recalled the experience of seeing this same wall day after day and the meanings it acquired for me through repeated contemplation. One of the things that fascinates me about this cabinet is that its surface, which imitates marble, has been restored many times since the 17th century. I had the opportunity to observe some changes after the last restoration.

Another thing that came to mind while drawing was the French expression "comme deux gouttes d'eau" (like two drops of water). It is used for things that look exactly identical. But contrary to what the expression suggests, two drops of water are not perfectly identical. Likewise, each restoration brought a slight variation to the cabinet, and my perception shifted slightly each time I posed in front of it.

I recently returned to the room in Leiden with a certain disappointment, as if the space where I had dwelled in while drawing had lost all connection to the original. No restoration had taken place, but my perception had evolved, and "like drops of water" (almost identical, but not quite), my drawings eroded the faux-marble I had in mind, in a kind of geology where human perception occupied a central place.

Department of the Historical monuments of the Municipality of Leiden, 'Pieterskerkgracht 9, Leids Schilder- en Tekengenootsdchap Ars Aemula Naturae', photograph, 1968
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, ‘Huis Ars Aemula Naturae, Interieur, eerste verdieping, kamer, overzicht gemarmerde wand’, photograph, december 1981