I have been thinking a lot about painstaking analogue/manual methods of reproduction. This was inspired by a recollection of a tape of The Queen is Dead I had at school. It had been recorded slightly too "loud", and was slightly distorted and clipped. When I got an original copy, I didn't like it, because it didn't sound "right" -- it was too clean and civilized. Recently I was reading about evolution, and the phrase "evolution requires imperfect copies" stuck in my head. I thought it applied to art -- the imperfections and differences in the way an artist sees and reproduces the world are what make painting so interesting. I couldn't resist the Warhol reference.