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A scan of two feet pressed flat against glass, one above the other on a black ground, both cropped along a straight horizontal edge where the skin stops touching. The lit soles show creases, lines and toes. Along each cut edge runs a narrow fringe of orange, green and violet.
Scan 1, SJ Field, 2022
A scan of a face almost entirely lost to darkness. A vertical strip of white light runs down the left edge. To the right of it, the head is a black mass with a few patches of grain — the brow, an eye socket, the side of a nose. Small pale flecks of dust are scattered across the surface throughout
Scan 2, SJ Field, 2022
A scan of a woman's head in profile, facing left, against a flat red ground. The face and neck are lit pale; the hair is dark and finely striated. A horizontal band across the jaw is blown out to white and split into thin bands of red, green and blue, as if the scan slipped as it passed that line.
Scan 3, SJ Field, 2022

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