Jeri Tattoo

Following the creation of the monumental Jeri, I was invited to explore new possibilities in digital fabrication. Using a detailed scan of the sculpture, I developed a color-printing technique in collaboration with Adobe—mapping textures directly onto the form. Graffiti collected from walls across Brazil, where the original subject was first encountered, was digitally wrapped onto the body, fusing figure and environment.

Conceptually, the work extended what I first discovered through touch—fingerprints and surface impressions—into a contemporary language of texture mapping. In this iteration, Jeri becomes not only a portrait of physical presence but also of cultural context, his surroundings literally inscribed onto his form.