(CNN) -- We leave genetic traces of ourselves wherever we go -- in a strand of hair left on the subway or in saliva on the side of a glass at a cafe.
So you may want to think twice the next time you spit out your gum or drop a cigarette butt in public.
New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg might pick it up, extract the DNA and create a 3-D face that could look like you. Her project, "Stranger Visions," fashions portrait sculptures from bits of genetic material collected in public places.
"The idea for the project came from this fascination with a single hair," Dewey-Hagborg told CNN. "This turned into a research project for me exploring exactly what I could discover about someone from an artifact they left behind.http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/tech/innovation/dna-face-sculptures/

KingBAD said:

imagine what she could do with a used rubber

Oh my goodness, you so nasty.

Of course, I start thinking about that radio talk show host that still plays in LA I guess (not here anymore), telling guys to put hot sauce in their used ones before they throw them in the trash. Somebody would get a surprise for sure.

I c only men r spitting gum these days

KingBAD said:

ThisOne said:

I c only men r spitting gum these days

I'm not sure if the wagging finger is for bad that men are spitting out gum or that it's only men she reconstructs. I assumed the latter, so...