Motus

Title: Motus
Size: 210x280x17mm
Total number of pages: 156 pages
Binding: Hardcover wireless binding / by Buchbinderei Mensch
Printed with Metapaper 210 x 280 mm,
Metapaper 420 x 280 mm,
Glama transparent paper / by PPP Print


[Introduction]

'MOTUS' is a graphic print work depicting the process of archiving a cluster of flying organisms. Referring to the visual documentation of the traces of the residual clusters, it is an archival composition that newly records and archives 20 species of organisms floating in a space based on various research data such as their flight, movement and speed, and the spread of debris as they move and fall.

[Motivation]

The process of archiving the work began after attending a post-colonial seminar on archiving in 2022. Through the seminar, I became more aware of my aesthetic perspective as an image maker and how much of the material and immaterial things I've collected have echoes of past imperialist and colonialist perspectives. Even though we try to deconstruct and break away from hierarchical gazes, it is difficult to escape the aesthetics created by a society that has long emphasized civilization and refinement. I wanted to try to relate this anthropocentric perspective to the archiving medium, and shaped my work around two questions:

📌 what do we want to discover and own, and what do we perceive as aesthetic in objects?

With this project, I also wanted to break away from the usual presentation of 3D graphics and try something new, so I decided to use the format of a book, an analog medium, rather than a digital medium, to better capture my content, which is archiving.

In order to do my archiving, I needed a series of materials with common or similar properties, and I needed to structure something that could have life in a virtual space. In order to intertwine the content and visual concepts, I begin to create imaginary artificial organisms during the visualization process.