HANS-PETER FELDMANN [ F-001A ]
Homework (or Do It Yourself)
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Look for a photo of a person who seems likeable or attractive. It's important that you can assume this person is dead. You don't need proof, your assumption is enough.

The photograph might be found in a variety of places: magazines, flea-markets, a family photo album. In any case, you must take great care in the search, which will continue until your intuition tells you that you've found the right photo. However, it is important that the person you choose is a complete stranger.

You take this photo and choose a frame according to your taste, as with any home decoration. This can be a wall frame or a standing frame, or possibly a case that you carry around.

Having brought this photo into your daily life, and now looking at it frequently, you should, as often as you like, think about who this person might have been, about what his or her life may have been like, about the cause of his or her death. You should find out how close you can get to this person, and at what point you would give him or her a name... |

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