'In Pursuit of the #BEADED' reinterprets Vermeer's The Guitar Player as a pixelated acrylic painting. The color palette of the work is built on an attempt to reproduce the precisely defined digital color #BEADED with hand-mixed paints. The title of the work contains a double meaning. BEADED refers to both the hexadecimal color code and the beadwork of Vermeer's original painting. In the work, a familiar image is reduced to large areas of color and moves between representation and abstraction. The work examines the gap between digital precision and material imprecision. On display, #BEADED is a precisely defined combination of numerical values. In a painting, the same color is affected by pigments, light, the painting surface, translucency, and the viewer's perception. Rather than a straightforward reproduction of a digital image, the work records an attempt to reach a color that can be precisely named but can never be fully fixed in a physical form.