Made as a participant of the Designed Realities Studio, heralded by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby.

My prints explore the moment of the internal splayed open – restructuring the notion of the internal as hiding by blurring the biotechnological boundary of the “organic” inside and the “sterile” outside. The up-close, invasive digital mediation of the mundane materials I chose – ice blocks and rubber bands – serves to create a new way of seeing that might lie outside the mind’s eye, but still barrels toward it. The process of flatbed scanning these built artifacts invokes a similar technical syntax as biological imaging, a quest to delineate one’s own messy insides by outsourcing it to the eye of the other. Staying with the trouble of the image being the only way we can envision the inner workings of our body – processes that we can never sensorily or affectively understand – I set out to project the sensory onto the digital, sterile image instead. I want to offer the viewer an alternate way of knowing, positioned away from didactic evaluation. Innards that barrel towards felt-sense.

Medium: rubber band, ice, plastic film.