US military whistleblower Chelsea Manning may be holed up in a military prison, but Chicago artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg was able to smuggle a piece of the WikiLeaks informant out of Fort Leavenworth. A FedEx package carrying cheek swabs and hair trimmings from the prisoner, currently serving a 35-year sentence for providing the news organization with evidence of potential military abuses, gave Dewey-Hagborg the evidence she needed to reconstruct Manning’s likeness as a 3D printed portrait.
Photo via Dewey-Hagborg’s website.
3DPI has covered Dewey-Hagborg’s work in the past, when she used DNA samples from cigarette butts and gum found on the street to create a series of portraits.…
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