ABOUT

My work examines the body at a moment when privacy has dissolved, and our physical selves are being steadily stripped away and converted into data, metrics, and profit. I’m interested in the space between being seen and being used, how surveillance, algorithms, and corporate platforms observe us, often with a disarming friendliness.

I use anatomical drawings, institutional markings, confessional fragments, and cheerful mascots to explore the violence hidden within these systems- the way a body is treated as inventory, where a life is reduced to a dataset, and our intimacy is gathered, classified, and sold back to us.

I work on wooden boards, found materials, and parchment to give the pieces the feeling of recovered artifacts. These surfaces hold the fragility of the human body, while the data taken from it persists.

I use thin, rough but deliberate lines to both echo medical illustration and tired deterioration. My text drifts between confession and bureaucratic notation, mirroring the instability of selfhood under constant observation. The mascots in the work offer a kind of hollow reassurance, almost normalizing this erosion of personhood.

Juxtaposition is central to my practice with anatomy beside icons, tenderness against code, and vulnerability facing commodification. Through these tensions, I explore what remains human when being seen is never neutral, never fully consensual, and never without cost.

B.D. Comley