As an exploration into the plasticity of the body the creation of a 3D printed sculpture, showing the intensity of the voice as a physical and horrific stress by re-imagining it as a force that moves outwards searching for input from its environment, effectively takes this translation from flesh to plastic. The 3D printed sculpture is of a previous experiment to imagine this intensity by focusing in on the mouth and transforming the tongue, teeth, oral cavity into that of a tentacle reaching out in order to bring the body into the world. By printing this in clear it reduces the body and the voice down to the same level, allowing them to exist without the textures that would normally define them. The scale compared to previous 3D printing experiments is exaggerated, previously this has been to a 1:1 scale with the human face but for this sculpture the scale was increased to further communicate the translation away from the human and towards the synthetic. To print the sculpture at this side meant splitting it into sections, the mouth was printed first and then the tentacle in two parts. The second tentacle that wraps around the front of the face is still being printed after a couple of attempts didn’t work properly. This again will be printed in parts and then assembled around the main structure of the mouth.