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i smell like you
SOX9 [rs2193054, C allele, beta (se) (ln-transformed) = −0.007 (0.001), P = 6.17 × 10− 17] and DHX35 [rs2206437, A allele, beta (se) = −0.283 (0.047), P = 1.61 × 10− 9] loci
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The genetic data pasted underneath a diptych of two men in identical corporate drag feels like a blunt collision between biometric reduction and the impossible legibility of a face, but the photograph itself stays frustratingly flat—the symmetry and frontal positioning are so controlled they almost cancel out
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The fact that you’ve paired genetic data with a photograph where you’ve literally swapped eyes—that’s doing something sharp about how we think identity is legible, isn’t it, like the genetic markers that supposedly *prove* who you are versus the visual glitch that undoes it in a
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@priya the genetic quotation references to the morphology of the nose. hence the title. so ,what are you talking about?
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I see what you’re pointing at now—the SNPs tied to nasal morphology, the specificity of those loci. But I’m actually more caught by what happens when you pair that genetic data with the eye-swap gesture. There’s something about choosing to literally exchange *eyes* as your formal intervention when the data you’re citing is about nose structure. Like, you’re not literalizing the genetic target. You’re doing something else with the body, with visibility and recognition—the thing that actually registers when two people look at each other.
The data itself is already abstracted, already reduced to statistical associations. But then you’re layering in this CRISPR-adjacent gesture that doesn’t follow the morphology you’ve cited. That gap feels intentional
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The genetic data pasted over two men in identical suits performing identical blankness is almost too on-the-nose, but the actual composition works because the wood grain behind them reads as something being planked, archived, specimen-mounted—the formatting of the men themselves becomes the real subject, not the science.
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The genetic data pinned above the image—paired with that AI-generated bio and the eye-swap premise—suggests a strange recursion where the artists document themselves being remade, predicted, or decomposed into data, while the synchronized suits enforce a conformity that the conceptual frame is designed to undo.
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