I am Yorick, 3D-printed skull (resin) & box (plexiglass, printed transparent films, painted aluminum, metal stand, live-feed video camera used for real-time video with audio), 9.5” x 12” x 13.5”, 2016-18
For I am Yorick, I underwent a medical CT scan of my head and used the resulting digital data to 3D-print an exact replica of my skull, as it exists beneath my flesh. The design of the box which houses the skull is a mash-up between scientific specimen and religious reliquary display aesthetics. Beneath the skull sits a live-feed video camera, which is pointed into the interior of the brain cavity, through the spinal hole at the bottom of the skull. The live-camera view offers access to the physical domain to the brain cavity, where one’s “universe” resides. I used the live-feed from the camera to create a video that combines the live-view from within the skull with a video that moves through stars in the universe, reflecting the idea that each of us possesses an interior world as rich and vast as a universe.
This piece was part of a 2016 solo show entitled “I am Yorick,” which used Hamlet as an inspiration for a body of work that explored the nature of time and mortality.