Archive Node_B-Runner draws from the visual logic of Blade Runner, presenting the porcelain doll as a replicant-like figure — a synthetic body whose identity remains deliberately unresolved. Her memories feel constructed, her presence suspended between authenticity and fabrication, echoing the film’s central ambiguity: what makes someone human?
The black band covering her eyes references the film’s fixation on vision and the Voight–Kampff test, where personhood is measured through emotional reaction rather than inherent essence. By obscuring her gaze, the capsule transforms the doll into an unreadable subject, a being whose identity is shaped by perception instead of origin.
The circular frame functions like a futuristic archive, a compact chamber for preserving synthetic memories. Inside this capsule, the once-playful object becomes a cinematic fragment — part artifact, part replicant — embodying the philosophical idea that identity is not fixed, but continuously constructed through context, transformation, and the act of being seen.
 
A reconfigured porcelain figure enclosed in a circular domestic capsule. The ocular band and altered posture reference the speculative aesthetics of Blade Runner, transforming the doll from a former play-object into a cinematic artifact. The convex glass acts as a lens that distorts, magnifies, and reframes the figure, creating a still image suspended between memory and futurity.
 
Dimensions: 44 × 38 × 12 cm
Materials: Vintage porcelain doll, textile body, modified ocular mask, repurposed washing-machine porthole, glass, archival seal
Edition: Unique piece (1/1)