STUDIO: 09.DEC.2025
This section documents the development of a digital movable-type process in which letters appear to be formed from melting, dripping, and reconstituted wax. The work translates the material language of letterpress into projected animation, allowing type to behave as if it were molten, unstable, and bodily.
Rather than treating letters as clean carriers of language, the process makes them viscous and excessive. The letterform becomes a surface event: something that pools, drips, burns, shines, and threatens to lose its legibility.
Documentation
Video tests/animation stills/process documentation.
Research Relation
This page supports the development of Ecce Homo and the project’s broader interest in writing with wax. It shows how digital projection can simulate a material process while still remaining tied to real material experiments in wax, stencil, print, and surface.
Within the research, the wax letterpress becomes a bridge between historical technologies of reproduction and the project’s recurring concern with inscription as a bodily, unstable, and surface-bound event.
QR Relation
Section: Part II: Praxis
Chapter: ECCE HOMO/Constructing a digital wax movable-type letterpress
Page: 154
Return to the document: This page offers process documentation connected to the construction of the digital wax letterpress.