Affective Skin
2024
3D-printed mask
Houdini, Prusa 3D Printer; translucent PLA
A translucent 3D-printed mask, generated from parametric architectural algorithms in Houdini, hovers between body and machine. Light filters through its woven lattice, merging with the wearer’s skin to reveal shifting identities beneath a cybernetic shell. I designed this “second face” to both conceal and expose, a synthetic epidermis for psychic intimacy that transforms alienation into touch, and turns estrangement into coexistence between the organic and the digital, emotion and computation.
This exoskeleton reimagines the body’s surface as a porous interface for digital empathy. The repeated sanding and priming of each printed layer mirror the slow coevolution of matter and simulation, where every refinement blurs the boundary between what is built and what feels alive.
Mask
Digital
Procedural creation of parametric and biomorphic structures to be 3D-printed in translucent PETG material.
Process
Heart
Digital