Everything started with a question if it was possible to transform a blank white paper into a black paper by copy it with maximum darkness settings over and over again.

To be able to see the development of the project I made new copies and saved everything.

The papers grain and its smaller shadows will be what the copy machine would react to. And by copy the copy over and over again my goal was to get the paper totally black.

After 60 copies the paper was almost covered in dark pulver from the photocopying, but strange things was to come. Everything started to change, the dark parties on the paper started to shrink. With the same settings (darkest possible), it still just kept on going to get less and less areas of black. At this point I had used three new copy cards and borrowed two. I could not let the turning experiment go, I had to continue to see were this was going.

230, 231 and 232 and I still did not get it, it was still shrinking. Then an even stranger phenomena occurred. I was standing in front of the machine as I had done for almost one hour, when everything just stopped, I got the last copy out of the machine and it was totally blank, not a spot was left, the paper was white again.

Carl Palm 02-02-2007