IDENTITY

In Identity (2024) he audience’s tangible engagement with their own physical relationship to the surrounding environment mirrors the lichens’ natural behaviour.  
This mirrors to human embryonic development in which the formation of human fingerprints is generated through the foetus' response to its environment.

Every ridge on the fingerprint has a unique identity, formed by a combination of the symbiotic relationship between the amniotic fluid’s pressure across the surface of the hand, the fingers growth, and other external responses.  
The sound of a heartbeat is played to represent the primordial, womb-like habitat.

Visitors are invited to press their fingertips on the allocated surface and scan their fingerprints, which will then be shown onto the digital screen and be printed in the gallery room on thermal rolling labels.

The printed labels highlight the fingerprint textures, which reminds us that the magnified morphology of lichens and the human fingerprint have a common biological origin.
These physical mementoes can either be left behind, forming a collective paper sculpture, or sent home by the artist, after the exhibition has ended, as a reminder of being part of a biofield identity.