RINGS

Postgenomic Wedding Bands
Ongoing

These rings transmute and externalize the informatic structure of otherwise internalized human biomatter onto a bodily accessory. Deploying parametric techniques developed for the “Neo-Cairns” and “Post-Mordial” projects, a pair of crypto-architectonic wedding bands encrypt the opening sequence of the gene for oxytocin (OXT) production, the neurotransmitter commonly referred to as the “love hormone” and associated with feelings of empathy, trust, and arousal.

Adapting the double-helix structure of DNA, where each nucleobase is paired in a spiraling ladder (adenine [A] with thymine [T], and guanine [G] with cytosine [C]), each ring embodies the complementary helical strand of the other. In order to formally encode this information, the “genetic compass” adopts a ubiquitous anthro-tectonic conducive to quadripartite logic, the orthogonal intersection, found in: Paleolithic art, religious symbolism, arithmetic notation, abstract cartesian geometry, physical geospatial description, architectural construction, and more.

The bands are expressions of human technē, culture, and ritual. Channeling a Frankl-ian perspective, and shaped from a metamaterialist framework, understanding the aesthetic concerns of appearance, beauty, and spectacle as downstream from — yet inextricably linked to — questions of meaning and materiality: They aestheticize meaning.

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ITERATIVE PROCESS:

Viktor E. Frankl, trans. Ilse Lasch, Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006, originally in German, 1959).

Physical media: 3D-printed wax-cast polished brass, 3D-printed fine detail acrylic, human hair, resin

PROJECTS: ABODE // CABIN // SEMI-SUB-URBAN // STATION // GREEN // TRANSPOSITORY // TEA-CRETE // LIGHTS // PENDANT // RINGS // NEO-CAIRNS // VESSELS // THESES: METAMATERIALISM (Human Being) // POST-MORDIAL (MIT SMArchS) // ISOTOPIA (Syracuse BArch) // HUMANS: KRIS // JODY