WYGWYL

The poet as a jointed paper cut-out made from his own photographs, set over the cineosis-lab cel cuts with the reading on the soundtrack. Every patch is built from the lab's cel database.

Poem 07

WYG-01 1:38Poem 07Poem 07, all twelve patches, made by the automatic pipeline: gestures cued by the words, heads chosen by the rig, plates made from his photographs.

The cast

The poet

a jointed paper cut-out from his own photograph · brass pins · paper hands

Cut into eleven pieces along his bones and moved by the rig like paper on a table. Replacement heads come from every photograph of him.

In: Poem 07, The paper poet · first proof

The replacement heads

six heads, mirrored to twelve turns

Front, three-quarter and profile heads, the head bowed in red light, the hand at the glasses and the camera held to the face, chosen frame by frame from the rig's turn and her words.

In: Poem 07

How a patch is built

Words to gestures. A cue table maps words in the patch's line to one held gesture each (ear, mic, open hands, reach, heart, chin up, head down, camera, glasses) and writes the rig world.
Heads. Each frame takes the replacement head nearest the rig's turn and tilt; some words ask for a particular head.
Plates. His own photographs with him painted out; the puppet goes back where he stood.
Inset. The patch's own archive cel, framed on a cardboard plinth, labelled from the cel database.

Proofs

WYG-02 0:25The paper poet · first proofThe poet as a jointed paper cut-out from his own photograph, over his Mexico City plates, with each patch's archive cel framed on a cardboard plinth.

WYG-03 0:31 · testCel-cut style proofTwo looks over the lab's cel cuts: a faceless figure under one hard light, and 1930s rubber hose on watercolour.

WYG-04 0:08 · testInk cel · P05-008The first ink cel for WYGWYL: "Their blood flows through my hands."

How it was made: the case study