Materials Flow

The object offers a contemplation on questions of scale, reality, nature, and digitality, and relates to Michal’s manifesto, which explores the relationship between the natural and the artificial. An engraving by Gaspar Becerra from the 1556 medical encyclopedia Historia de la Composición del Cuerpo Humano by Juan Valverde was transformed into a digital image and enlarged to a height of 3.5 meters. In the work, the human figure is “tattooed” into the wall; its digitized form was fed into software that decoded the lines of code from which it is constructed. Instead of the piece of skin the figure holds in the original engraving, it now holds the lines of code that generate its own image. The letters are, in fact, the actual code that produces the very human who holds them.