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03

2022
Transparen'see

The inventor of X-Ray Willem Rontgent said “all bodies possess the same transparency, but in varying degrees.” X-ray helped us see through things we thought were once solid and blurred the lines between solidity and transparency. Inspired by Rontgent, my project uses cross-polarizers as a speculative medical vision tool to see the transparent and the unseen. The transparent plastic sulptures are made with an assemblage of body parts I’ve cast from friends. I combined them and with vacuum-forming, I made 3 collective, amorphous bodies that show a state of flux and transformation. As the viewer puts on polarized sunglasses, they can see the colors move and dance as they walk around the sculptures.