Detention, 2023

handmade prison-style tattoo machine assembled from improvised parts

A DIY prison-style tattoo machine on a hospital trolley tattoos artificial human skin, staged with blood-stained napkins and a bloodied spoon. The project explores skin as material, surface, and system—blurring boundaries between body, machine, and control. Bioplastic experiments imagine skin as textile, garment, or synthetic layer, probing imperfection, beauty, and the body’s transformation under experimental and carceral logics. 

“Beauty emerges not through refinement, but through endurance, damage, and adaptation, positioning the body as a surface continuously negotiated between autonomy and institutional control.”