FRAGMENTS OF FLESH AND CHROME: DIGITAL FLESH, METALLIC SOUL—A SURREAL, CYBER-PUNK COLLISION OF VULNERABILITY AND POWER
““It’s not just fashion,” Dor Naim writes, “it’s a performance of identity caught between chaos and control.”“
— Dor Naim
And that’s exactly what Fragments of Flesh and Chrome is. A beautifully ruptured experiment in post-human visual language, the kind of series that burns its blueprint into your mind and leaves you wondering whether what you’re seeing is body, code, or dream. This is not aesthetic for Instagram consumption, but a scream filtered through chrome.. a scar masquerading as style.
Dor Naim is a multidisciplinary visual artist, image conjurer, and Los Angeles-based oracle of the alternative who captures the evolution of his subjects more than shoots them. With model Tin Ma as both muse and glitch-god, the series collapses the walls between raw vulnerability and metallic fiction. Skin is not sacred here. It’s scratched, bruised, peeled open, only to be fused with sculptural digital fragments that jut out like shards of some bio-mechanical confession.
This isn’t your cyberpunk in the Netflix sense. No clean neon, no tidy dystopia, just a dirty, beautiful future of degradation. Flesh rendered through surreal, sculptural tech. Identity reconstructed not through trends, but trauma. Tin Ma doesn’t pose—they inhabit the energy and idea Dor is manifesting through the lens. Their energy becomes the static between frames, the glitch between beauty and grotesque. There’s an honesty to their presence that makes every distortion hit harder.
Behind their transformation is an alchemical team who didn’t style the ‘look’, they summoned it. Tracy’s makeup is feral and fractured, soft in all the wrong places. Kai styles with a precise chaos, outfitting Tin like a relic of a post-human priesthood. And lssya, assistant and accomplice, completes this ritual in aesthetic brilliance to bring it all together. A good team is hard to find, a great creative team is rare to build, and they’ve done it quite beautifully.
What makes Fragments hit so hard is how it feels like documentation of something real, only glimpsed in these moments, and though it exists outside of time. You can almost feel the tension between human and machine in each shot from Dor, the microsecond before surrender. This is fashion as ideology. Body as a self-fulfilled battlefield emerging as both fate and myth.
In an industry that constantly polishes women into perfection, Dor Naim offers raw skin, scabbed over with chrome. It’s punk futurism without apology. Surrealism with bruises. And yes, it’s beautiful. But only because it dares not to be.
CREDITS
Photographer / Art Director: Dor Naim (@dorn50)
Model: Tin Ma (@tinzula)
Makeup Artist: Tracy (@makingitup__)
Fashion Stylist: Kai (@arkhaivesatmidnight)
Assistant: lssya (@lssya.a)
SEE MORE OF DOR NAIM
Portfolio: dornaim.com
Instagram: @dorn50
