"Visitors to Karin Sander exhibitions at the LehmbruckMuseum in Duisburg and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf were scanned with the laser beams of a 3-D body scanner. The resulting data was sent to a 3-D color printer to construct the people, layer by layer, as sculptural plaster figures on a scale of 1:8. The process of 3-D printing produces a faithful reproduction of the person scanned. It results in a sculpture in a freely chosen pose and individually determined color-a three-dimensional self-portrait. This book presents, arranged by color, the figures of 981 museum visitors and three dogs produced mechanically during the two exhibitions." from the back cover.