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Brooklyn artist Ted Lawson hooked himself up to a robotic painting machine that used his blood as ink to draw a nude portrait of himsel.
As part of a series of artworks made using Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines – originally programmed to paint with a self-filling brush and ink device – Ted Lawson decided to hack the device to use his own blood, which led to the notion of a self-portrait.
"I don't really like being the physical subject of my own work and was not particularly thrilled to pose nude, but the purest execution of the concept demanded it," he told Dezeen. "The idea of connecting the self directly to the machine and then making that connection to the other works in the show was important to me."
To make the Drawing Blood project as relevant as possible to a wide audience, the artist played on the popular craze for taking photos of oneself with a mobile phone camera and used technology to recreate his likeness.
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