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[PDP] skin pantone, 2004. salvador de bahia
ink-paper50 x 35 cm - 19.68 x 13.77 in
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137 different names are recorded in the brazilian social miscegenation for the color of the skin.
thus this series has 37+1 portraits, being the one an albino girl- the no color.
this is the first layer, just strokes of black ink. next step is cover with oil painting following a chromatic order from white to black, from albino through diverse shades to "retinto" (double painted) or blue-black skin.
portraits will have its own pantone color specification, in each case.