Second skin

By Mariia Ladan 

Painting & Graphic Design

Medium: Digital Photography + AI + 3D Elements

This digital work is a fusion of reality and imagination, blending photography with AI-generated textures and 3D decor. The artist, dressed in an AI-designed dark beige dress adorned with 3D metallic flowers blossoming across its front, is placed within a surreal background.

The piece explores the tension between organic life and artificial creation. The metallic flowers symbolize synthetic beauty emerging from within nature. By positioning herself at the center of the composition, the artist becomes both the subject and the message — a figure merging machine aesthetics with natural symbolism.

Second Skin is a reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and nature in the age of digital transformation. It is a meditation on what it means to grow, connect, and seek beauty in a world where the boundaries between the real and the artificial are increasingly blurred.