A twenty-two page photo album of the artist's tattoos—complete with index—captured on a flatbed scanner. Each photo frame includes stylized and distorted text, naming the tattoo, the year inked, and the general location of the appointment.

From the artist's statement: A flatbed scanner, like a camera, is an inherently “truthful” machine; known for reproducing forms, homework, handouts, it is an iterative object. I wanted to know how it would feel to put a female body through that process and I liked the implications of capturing it through the flatbed scanner, using it to copy and document the information of the body, simultaneously validating and objectifying it through reproduction. At the same time, the physical form of the book is also a site of contradictions. The oval cut-outs reveal the prints in their envelopes referencing vintage photo albums. Each photo frame includes stylized and distorted text, naming the tattoo, the year inked, and the general location of the appointment. The kerning has been adjusted to transition the text from individual characters towards more asemic expressions to be viewed as imagery, rather than text. The metallic prints call to mind tin types and the bracelets of the binding replace the septum rings which bound the original volume. My intention for this project was to further develop the ideas of objectification through image making, the obscurity of information, and “sterile” data collection of organic information.