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

The archiving process began following the theory seminar "Archiving Nearby" in 2022. Through this seminar, I developed a deeper awareness of my perspective as an image maker and recognized how personal collections often carry cultural and historical layers. This prompted me to examine how aesthetic preferences are shaped by broader cultural narratives and to consider alternative approaches to representation.

The project centers on two foundational questions:

What do we choose to preserve and why?
How do aesthetic values inform our perception of objects?

Rather than presenting the work through conventional digital visualization methods, I chose the analog medium of a book. This format allowed me to engage more meaningfully with the theme of archiving itself, creating a tactile experience that mirrors the physical nature of collection and preservation.

To develop this archive, I gathered materials with shared or complementary properties, seeking to create structures that could suggest living systems. By interweaving content and visual concepts, I began generating imaginary artificial organisms throughout the visualization process. These forms became a way to explore how we construct meaning and coherence from collected objects, while questioning the hierarchies often embedded in curatorial practices. Through this approach, the book functions both as an archive and as a reflection on archival methods themselves.

Before translating the work into print, I began developing digital visualizations using Cinema 4D and Redshift to create realistic virtual materiality as modular components. Through iterative reconstruction and recomposition, I designed twenty distinct cluster formations, rendering them to convey a sense of vitality and dynamic movement. Rather than presenting these renders directly, I subjected them to experimental editing within 2D design software, allowing me to research and develop new compositional approaches and editorial styles.

This work marks my first step beyond the digital environment, extending digitally-created materiality into print. What emerged was an unexpected coherence: translating digital materiality into physical pages created a meaningful interconnectivity between content and format. The archive became self-referential—by choosing an analog medium to explore themes of curation, the methodology itself reinforced the concept. Digital and physical now dialogue with one another, each amplifying the other's meaning.