Bio Beauty

Introducing "Bio-Beauty," an innovative approach to personalized eyeshadow creation. This product is meticulously crafted from a unique blend of pigments derived from bacteria sourced both from your own body and its surrounding environment.

With Bio-Beauty, every shade tells a story of your individuality, harnessing the diverse microbial ecosystem that is uniquely yours. Each pigment is carefully selected and cultivated, resulting in a palette that reflects the natural beauty and distinct characteristics of your microbiome.

Process

1. Collect
Collect bacteria from bodies and New York City.

2. Select
Select bacteria with different colors and textures, and transfer them into new agar plates.

3. Grow
Grow bacteria in agar platte.

Series

‘BODY ARCHIVE’
run! (feet)
black forest (sexual organs)
a slap in the face (faces)
entrance (mouths)
can you read palms? (hands)
every body (most common yellow one)

‘PICNIC IN MANHATTAN’
On the fifth tile on Fifth Ave
Under city sewer
@subwaycreatures
At 6:48 pm in Central Park
With subway rats
With lost pigeons

‘SO-CALLED ART’
No art, only artists (Ernst Gombrich)
15 minutes of fame (Andy Warhol)
Creativity takes courage (Henri Matisse)
I shut my eyes in order to see (Paul Gauguin)
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile (Ai Weiwei)
I am just another dot in the world (Kusama Yayoi)