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Identity Maps is a series of digitally manipulated photographs derived from scientific and medical depictions of the human body. I alter the factual ‘document’ via computer technology to produce a ‘science-fiction’ account of identity. This series explores the question of mind-body identity in an age that allows increasing intervention. Does science subvert spirit? Or, is technology a necessary spiritual reinforcement? New technology can be like a lure, pinpointing our defects, attempting to perfect what is imperfect, while running the danger of subverting our original intent. This kind of human striving has, at its core, the desire to control or transcend what is written in code (DNA), to order or index underlying physiological/psychological processes, and to otherwise contain what is mostly inevitable. Sometimes what science makes visible reveals what remains steadfastly invisible or impenetrable. Signs in the physical world are only indications of identity as plotted with no directions included.M.M.

1959	born
1984	B.A. Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1988	M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, CA
	Independent artist; lives in San Francisco, CA