Initiated as a book object in 2022, To Know a Fly established a material and structural point of departure for a growing group of related works. Its pages, folds, bindings, covers, printed motifs, and internal sequences are not treated as fixed components of a completed object, but as conditions from which further forms can emerge. Through separation, repetition, enlargement, folding, binding, and spatial reconfiguration, a limited set of elements develops into distinct works across image, object, and space. The project therefore functions both as an independent artwork and as a generative structure—an origin that remains active rather than being left behind.

To Know a Fly includes artist’s books, recycled-concrete objects, and paintings composed of multiple book pages. Screenprinting, monotype, and bookbinding form the technical basis of the project. The artist’s book measures 24 × 11.5 × 5 cm, corresponding to the dimensions of a standard DIN brick. Four types of paper with different colours and textures refer to the materials used in recycled concrete, linking book, page, and building unit through scale, material, and structure.

2023