To modify nature is our nature.

Humans have altered the genomes of species for thousands of years through artificial selection. Over the last half century scientists made profound technological progress to improve natures crops and mammals through genetic modifications. At the start of the twenty-first century science mapped the entire human genome and so began humanity’s journey to genetically modify ourselves.

Abhominal, “away from man”, is an exploratory weblog of the human form. These explorations are a fusion of geometric, architectural, generative and biological abstractions – envisioning an evolutionary future where biotechnology has been used to make perfect posthuman beings.

Tis true my form is something odd
But blaming me is blaming God
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.

— Isaac Watts

Reconfiguration IV

Generative Form II

It's a history book – a narrative of the journey of our species through time. It's a shop manual, with an incredibly detailed blueprint for building every human cell.

— Francis Collins Human Genome Project

Reconfiguration III

Posthuman Structure III

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

— Immanuel Kant Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

Biostructure IV

Biostructure III

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

— Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Biostructure II

Biostructure I

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

— Euclid

Biostructure

Human Reconfiguration XII

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

— J. G. Ballard Myths of the Near Future

Human Reconfiguration X

Human Reconfiguration VIIII

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it.

— Margaret Atwood MaddAddam

Human Reconfiguration IV

Human Figure Study III

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...

— Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Olympian I

Untitled 5

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

— Isaac Newton