A commissioned work, Anthropometrics responds to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries, from 1960, which was  a kind of performance piece in which naked women dipped in blue paint made impressions of their bodies on a canvas. You can watch footage of Anthropometries here.

Instead of naked female models, I used data from my body – sleep data, daily steps and heart rate – to render an image. Data points connected by randomized lines give an impression of flowers, a traditionally feminine form. The work starts with the kind of spinning loading symbols that typically display while waiting for data to load.

I inscribed two Anthropometrics as Ordinals, one on a dark background:

(inscribed here.)

And the other on a light background:

(inscribed here.)

Final images were printed and framed as a pair.