Though technology is perfecting itself rapidly, paperclips and hands still prove elusive to AI. Paperclips and hands are the major theme in Constant Dullaart's exhibition Sunsetting Inconsistencies.
The theme of hands and paperclips occurs, among other forms, made by misuse of the EBS-260 Handjet® industrial handheld inkjet printer. Rather than would have been the result using much more efficient tools such as a common printer, these works retain the flaws of creation by hand. ASCII is the digitally-borne graphic technique that similarly reappropriates the symbols of a keyboard to create drawings, adjacent to emoticons (,づ◔◔)づ✿. The process of text to image is broken down to a more humanly analog scale.