Tattoos that Make Everyone a Product

A few years ago, there was a brief trend of barcode wrist tattoos, which seemed to imply that the human body was just another product to be bought. With this photo, the artist Eddie Lin makes this question explicit. Did he really print QR codes on his skin? We don't know. However, his work positions humans as consumer products, and puts work at the center of our lives. In this vision, we are defined by our business cards. It's a scary idea to think that we might be sorted and tattooed like animals, but if you think about it, we're all already on record.

Via Fubiz.