What happens when the act of drawing extends through time, when a portrait unfolds through continuous reinterpretation rather than seeking resolution? This work explores the intersection of tradition and automation, where the artist's hand converges with the mechanical precision of a pen plotter guided by artificial intelligence.

The process begins with the artist's input: a drawing, a portrait. Yet rather than existing as a finished work, it enters a state of perpetual transformation. Over 17 days, the machine generates a new version daily, layering deviations, hesitations, and reinterpretations. Each iteration becomes a negotiation between precision and unpredictability—where the controlled movements of the pen plotter meet the AI's coded reinterpretation and the material resistance of ink, paper, and time.

This work embodies protocolism—an artistic approach in which creation emerges from defined systems of interaction between human and non-human agents. Here, the protocol inverts traditional hierarchies: the digital drawing becomes the original, while physical works emerge as variations or copies. The artist establishes rules, the AI interprets, and the pen plotter manifests these interpretations. Through this distributed creative process, meaning arises not only from individual drawings but from the system that generates them.

Through this slow, methodical process, the work questions authorship and the limits of artistic intention. Can a machine develop its own creative gesture? Can repetition produce something beyond replication? As the work evolves, it creates space for a form of mechanical intuition to emerge.

At the end of 17 days, the portraits stand together as an archive of difference—a meditation on time, process, and the shifting boundaries between human and artificial creation. The portrait becomes not a singular image but a living record of its own making.