(Homage to Yves Klein’s Anthropometry series)
3 posters, 40×62″
For a workshop to create any kind of poster-generating machine, I decided to use living creatures to make a poster, inspired by Yve Klein’s Anthropometry series.
While Klein employed and directed human models
to make imprints of their bodies on a large canvas,
I let hundreds of fruit flies make imprints of their tiny bodies on a tiny piece of paper. Since I couldn’t really direct the flies, I anesthetized them with carbon dioxide and placed them on a puddle of watercolor paint. As they woke up and tried to escape from the watercolor ocean and dry their wings and legs, they made traces and imprints.
As I resized the tiny original posters into huge posters, the imprints became something unfamiliar and unexpected.