After snapping a portrait of a volunteer subject, Brazilian artist Angélica Dass extracts a sample of 11×11 pixels of his or her face and matches it to the corresponding Pantone color.
Humanæ is an ongoing art project that's attempting to chart the full spectrum of human skin tones.
There’s no explicit political message behind the project, and Dass describes her work like this:
Humanæ it’s a pursuit for highlighting our subtle-continuous of our tones that make more equality than difference… our true colors, rather than the untrue Red and Yellow, Black and White. It is a kind of game for subverting our codes. The audience is free to read into it. The ultimate goal is to provoke and bring currently using internet as a discussion platform on ethnic identity, creating images that lead us to match us independent from factors such as nationality, origin, economic status, age or aesthetic standards.
Boing Boing previously highlighted this project back when it first started in 2012, but it’s worth revisiting again as Dass has been able to add hundreds of portraits to her collection in the intervening three years.
