Crypto-Tear: Iris Algorithm

By Cong Liu

Painting & Graphic Design

This ocular dystopia materializes the violence of biometric colonialism. Your iris, etched with blockchain-encoded gears that convert unique striations into cryptographic bank keys, becomes a living prison. The pupil fractures into twin panopticons: left half projects a real-time AR city mapped to your GPS data, buildings forged from WeChat Pay ledgers; right half streams neural theater where amygdala tremors are quantified into social credit algorithms. Tear ducts with liquid nitrogen-cooled ducts suppress weeping, while expelled brine is harvested by iris scanners to crystallize salt grains engraved with Facial Recognition Protocol 4.2.7. Unruly capillaries in the sclera’s cracks bleed resistance manifestos in hemoglobin Morse code. Here, the eye is no longer an organ but a biometric passport—when irises consent to being machine-readable QR codes, humanity forfeits the right to gaze upon stars.