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Tolerance Studies / 공차 연구

Eight steel nuts hold their grid while a ninth, made of red thread, begins to unravel. Across Datum, Variation and Release, engineering tolerance becomes a question about difference and belonging. Three AI-generated synthetic still lifes; no physical materials experiment is claimed.

Jihoon Song

Eight steel nuts keep their places while a ninth, made of red thread, begins to undo itself. In engineering, tolerance names the permitted difference between a dimension and its specification. Here the same word becomes a question: how much difference can an orderly system accommodate before it treats a member as a defect?

The first image establishes a shared outline. The second releases a single thread. In the third, that thread occupies the margin without displacing any of the surrounding metal forms. The change is deliberately small. Nothing is smashed or replaced; the grid must coexist with a line it cannot straighten.

These are synthetic still lifes, not photographs of manufactured objects or evidence of a materials experiment. The sequence explores an idea through a controlled visual transformation rather than claiming a tested engineering result.