This “Big Pharma Tried to Patent My DNA” work is a unique monoprint-transfer on vintage pillowcase. To create the imagery I downloaded the application submitted by a pharmaceutical company in their unsuccessful attempt to patent the BRCA1 gene (containing my genetic mutation). Using digital tools I then collaged an individual page from the patent application with a digitally modified self-portrait and WWII “Jude” star.

To personalize the accumulating dangers of DNA data being monetized by corporations, and racially weaponized by governments, my series, currently titled “For Our Own Good: How My Life-saving Surveillance Destroyed Democracy,” weaves together self-portraits with artifacts from my own surveillance journey.

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