Baudrillard’s hyperreality. This video is a simulacrum of the now dead work, Icon. The skin is a combination of organic and synthetic materials. In an attempt to affirm a physical reality through the body, touch is reconciled under subversions in the virtual. A physical manifestation of the digital iconograph, the surface behaves like flesh, faltering to the touch. The identity manifested in the virtual, is no reflection of true form.

“If the body is no longer a site of otherness but of identification, then we have urgently to become reconciled with it, repair it, perfect it, turn it into an ideal object. Everyone treats their bodies the way men treat women in projective identification: they invest them as a fetish, making an autistic cult of them, subjecting them to a quasi-incestuous manipulation. And it is the body's resemblance to its model which becomes a source of eroticism and 'white' seduction -- in the sense that it effects a kind of white magic of identity, as opposed to the black magic of otherness.” Jean Baudrillard.