Tollund Man: reborn for the age of reflection

I began this work by sculpting the head of a bog body in clay, using the physical model as a starting point for digital translation. Through photogrammetry, the form was captured and imported into Nomad Sculpt, where I refined the details and adjusted the structure within a digital environment. The reconfigured model was then 3D printed at a larger scale on a Bambu Lab printer in PLA.

Once printed, the work was subjected to a process of surface transformation: carefully sanded and primed to erase the visible traces of its layered fabrication, then coated in a high-gloss black underlayer. Onto this surface, I applied graphite powder by hand, which burnished into the black ground to produce a metallic sheen. The result is a surface that oscillates between material illusion and artifice, evoking both archaeological artifact and contemporary object. here are some images from the process of fabrication, as well as the references of the original bog body i used to sculpt from.