Bust of a Woman II

2015

Powder-coated aluminum (cast from 3D print, from 3D laser scan)

Life Size

These works were made from scans of my own body created over a period of several years. I scan myself frequently, but what I end up with is a series of digital doppelgangers with a (n after-) life of their own.

These scans, realized as life-sized 3d printed statues and installed in darkened rooms as a damaged ancient artifact might be, serve as incomplete memorials to the body as it moves through time and space. At first glance they might resemble a fragmented classical sculpture, but on closer inspection they are revealed as plastic reproductions. The bodily degradation is digital, not a by-product of time, nature or war, and the pieces are created in a ‘cheap’ material that could, in theory, be endlessly reproduced.