Artwork
At the core of the ‘Posthumous World’ research project will be a new artwork provisionally entitled ‘Earthlings’. A poetic meditation on the body’s journey to rejoin the ecosphere after death, it is also a scientifically accurate visual simulation of a human body being assimilated back into the environment after burial. Based on the artists own body, it can be seen as an ecological self-portrait in the form of a durational sculpture.
This artwork will be the first scientifically based, fully animated 3D model of human decomposition.
This page will accumulate the residues of this work in progress…
JAN 2026 GSplats and VR
I test Gaussian splat modelling for VR platforms
DEC 2025 Soil
How does a buried body interact with the soil?
JUL 2025 Fluid Organs
How do different body organs and tissues liquefy and mix together?
SEPT 2024 Wrapping
How to combine the colour body scan with the CT scan?
JUNE 2024 Colour Scanning
Getting a colour scan of my body.
DEC 2023 Realflow Processing
The first experiments in using fluid dynamics for decomposition.
MAR 2023 Dragonfly Processing
Extracting the first body meshes from the scan data.
DEC 2022 CT Scan Vietnam
The decomposition model is based on a full body CT scan.
AUG 2019 Beginnings
I begin with an idea about endings
The Posthumous World 