SKINWARE
Photographer: Lychen wu
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“SKINWARE” is a speculative photo series exploring the fragile interface between human identity and technological imprint. Through a surreal layering of circuit boards, synthetic textures, and natural skin, the work challenges viewers to consider what it means to be emotionally alive in an age of manufactured intelligence.
The face becomes a site of integration—where memory chips replace scars, digital detritus mimics ritual markings, and a butterfly interrupts the binary logic with a fleeting gesture of the organic. The contrast between vulnerability and machinery questions whether technology is a mask, a mirror, or a second skin.
The images move between intimacy and distance, softness and rigidity, gesturing toward a future where the self is both archived and alive—data-laden yet deeply human.
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Model: Zoey Zhu
Photographer: Lychen wu