Machine in operation

Franz Kafka’s In The Penal Colony and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and The Pendulum inspired the machine depicted in this video. The victim starts by being strapped in using leather straps, something… Continue reading →

Inscribed Back

To create these images I constructed machines would inscribe my own back. The patterns are inspired by deep tissue skin cells taken from: Stevens, A. &Lowe, J. (2005) Human Histology. 3rd ed. London:… Continue reading →

Wrist Inscriber

After reading Kafka’s In The Penal Colony, I started to consider the possibility of an inscriber machine. This small model was a way of testing materials and mechanisms. The pattern was based on… Continue reading →

Skin On Skin

A series of histological images taken from: Stevens, A. &Lowe, J. (2005) Human Histology. 3rd ed. London: Elsevier Mosby Each image has been scratched in to the surface of the skin using thin… Continue reading →