Series of prints. 3D model of a human figure scanned with the front-facing TrueDepth camera on an iPhone, ordinarily used for facial recognition.
The stability of the process and of the subject affect the accuracy of the scan. These scans take several minutes to capture and distortions arise from movement in the subject, as well as from variations in the pace and distance of the hand operating the scanner as it moves over its target. These particular scans combine meshes with textures, but tend to confuse materials during transitions.
Despite the echo of a form, an interior and an exterior, a 3D model has no substance and is never an object. It's walls are too thin to be rightly called a skin, but we use that term anyway. It has the shape of something that exists, but none of its substance, none of its physicality, none of its reality.
For Leibniz every language exists between two poles. At one extreme you have the language of god and the angels, where every quantum of creation has a unique and true name. Every blade of grass, every grain of sand. At the other you have binary, where the entire universe and all of experience can be described by a combination of two digits. One and zero. On and off. The universe is encoded now. Our new home, bitmapped. An endless chain of binary pulses constitutes our latest cosmos, and charts for us a brave new world where the algorithm has bled into the data, and binary has become the language of the gods and angels.