Reshaped: The Tattoo in 3D

Greyscale cutout portrait of Meryll Dindin, head to waist, the circular tattoo visible on his upper back.

Meryll Dindin's back, rebuilt as a point cloud in three dimensions. The tattoo lifts off and comes apart into six components: the universe and the genome, a human hand and a bionic hand, a crystal and a circuit-tree, where nature meets technology. Scroll to decompose.

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The Body

My body, rebuilt as a point cloud in black and shades of grey. Scroll to take it apart.

Dissociate

The tattoo lifts off the skin and scatters. After Jujutsu Kaisen: the body is not fixed, it is material we can read and edit.

The Universe

The left half: a field of galaxies at the logarithmic scale of the observable universe. Nature, the world we came from and never designed.

The Human Hand

A human hand reaches out of the galaxies. The biology we inherit, the part of us we did not choose.

The Genome

The right half: the human genome across species, drawn as sequencing bars. Technology, the code we are learning to read and write.

The Bionic Hand

A bionic hand reaches out of the genome. The biology we engineer, the part of us we build.

The Crystal

A crystal at the center, fracturing at its base. The vessel where nature and technology meet and reform.

The Circuit-Tree

Inside the crystal, a tree drawn as a circuit board. Life encoded as technology, the fusion made visible.

Reshaped

The pieces recompose into the whole. Biology and technology converging on one object: life itself.