The Animal Machine anatomical pig study by Mehran Ahmadi

Anatomical studies / Flesh, systems, control

The Animal Machine

A series about human cruelty, industrial control, and the transformation of living beings into systems.

01 / The engineered body

Living matter becomes an object.

In The Animal Machine, the animal body is shown as both living matter and engineered object. The pig is no longer represented as a natural being, but as something measured, opened, mapped, processed, and redesigned by human systems.

The pig becomes a body, a diagram, a machine, and a dataset, caught between flesh, technology, and the violence of human design.

Anatomical pig body reconstructed as a dense organic system by Mehran Ahmadi
Pig anatomy transformed into flesh, cables, and machine-like structures

02 / Hidden infrastructure

Veins, wounds, cables, routes.

The red lines move across the body like veins, wounds, cables, surgical traces, factory routes, and machine-learning diagrams. They suggest a hidden infrastructure of control: the systems humans build to dominate animals, to consume them, to study them, and to turn their bodies into products.

Anatomical animal diagram crossed by red vascular lines
Pig body reduced to ribs, routes, and exposed technical structures
Layered anatomical pig study suggesting an industrial biological machine

03 / Cruelty as structure

This series looks at cruelty not only as a physical act, but as a structure. A machine can be a slaughterhouse, a laboratory, an industrial farm, a camera, a scanner, or an artificial intelligence model.

In the modern world, animals are not only trapped by metal and concrete; they are also captured by images, data, algorithms, and prediction systems.

Anatomical pig form with an exposed network of ribs and organs
Pig anatomy rendered as a pale technical study with red internal lines
Animal body mapped as an anatomical and computational diagram
Anatomical pig study with flesh transformed into layered internal systems
Pale pig body interrupted by red lines and exposed anatomical structures
Animal anatomy reorganized into a violent network of bodies and cables
Technical pig study showing anatomy as a classified system
Pig body crossed by vascular routes and diagrammatic marks
Anatomical animal form with internal structures organized like machinery
Pig anatomy rendered as a network of ribs, veins, and machine routes
Anatomical pig body transformed into an archive of flesh and pattern
Final Animal Machine study of a pig body controlled by repeated red systems

04 / Flesh as information

The body becomes a technical drawing.

The pig becomes a symbol of the animal transformed into information. Flesh becomes archive. Pain becomes pattern. The body becomes a technical drawing made by a violent intelligence.