A video titled chinese transfer press which shows a machine press process in China is one the starting point of whole project. Six workers sat inside of gigantic press machine were doing metal works. It tells the reality of how the industrialized production process look like, far from the imaginary utopia style of robot taking all the chore for mankind. In reality, we human invent machine to mass produce goods we wish, then put human into the machine to complete the procedure. The tangled relationship raised the question of what's the reason for us to keep rolling the unescapable spiral and how should we see ourselves position in the machine if the participation is inevitable.

As the progress of our industrialized human society, everything could be generated by machine, then we use money which we eared from working with machinery system to exchange the goods we wish to have. At the end, we accumulate these machine made objects to represent a wish-to-have image of ourselves to others.

In the spiral the the man - machine relationship which speeds up by constant upgrading technology. However, one's identity can be shorten and established or represented by one's own objects. In this tangle relationship, how can we see the meaning of our existence in the un escapable system?

Self portrait machine is the mimic process of man human cooperation. However, instead of producing general goods, self portrait machine helps user to generate their own self drawn portrait,. which is supposed to be the most truly image we wish to show to others. The quality of portrait output depends on the level of user's will of cooperation with machine's movement, as how we are willing to put ourselves into society in exchanging for wish-to-look-good life in real society.