Portrait of D

2014

3D print (laser-sintered nylon) from 3D laser scan

Life size

Death Masks series

The scanning and 3d printing process strips color and movement from the body, leaving behind only traces of its form – a scan of the face resembles nothing more than a digital death mask. Like a photograph, a 3d scan is made from life, and from a limited perspective. When materialized as sculpture, it reveals losses and blind spots, frayed edges, and voids in the solid object that stand for all the things that the scanner’s mechanical eye cannot see.