CMYK
Contex, Motion, Yield, Knowledge
Genesis
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This project originates from the idea that every determined situation can always be broken down into more fundamental components. Like in printing, every hue comes from the CMYK primal colors.
For this artwork I used four reproductions of the Boobycorn figure. Rather than treating them as variations of a single object, I approached them as a system, four elements that only fully make sense when read together.
Concept
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Each figure represents a foundational factor, and their coexistence points to the idea that no experience, decision or state exists in isolation or in a pure form. The focus here is on the relationship between elements and the structure they form when combined. Like a printed image, this piece is organised around four variables: Context, Motion, Yield and Knowledge.
Context (C) refers to the conditions in which something exists: environment, history, constraints and surrounding factors. Nothing emerges apart from these conditions.
Motion (M) is the ongoing flow of change. Forces gather, disperse and reorganise constantly. Nothing remains fixed, but neither does it move at random. Every situation evolves through a continuous movement.
Yield (Y) describes how systems always follow paths of lesser resistance. Outcomes are not arbitrary, they are the result of how forces settle into the configurations that can be sustained.
© Clément-Bucco-Lechat
Knowledge (K) is what remains from every previous configuration. Is what becomes integrated and alters how future situations are perceived and approached.
Working with Boobycorn as the base figure naturally carried the presence of the unicorn. It functions as a symbol of uniqueness and myth, pointing to the singularity of lived experience even when built from shared structures.
Process
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Visually, the project is grounded in the logic of CMYK colour separation. Before working in sculpture, my first professional experience as a graphic designer was in an offset printing company, where part of my role involved preparing the four printing plates used in the process. Decomposing images into cyan, magenta, yellow and black made the idea of structure, proportion and recombination tangible to me at an early stage.
I assigned a dominant colour to each unicorn, but none of them is pure. Elements of the other colours appear across the figures, reinforcing the idea that no variable exists in isolation. This also allowed me to integrate my graphic identity directly into the faces.
Each figure stands on a small container acting as a reservoir, holding the coloured compound associated with it. From the tip of each horn emerges a drop of the same colour, suggesting flow and distribution. The emphasis is not on a fixed mixture, but on quantity: how much of each element is present, and how that balance shapes the outcome.
Outcome
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The piece was exhibited in 2022 at Art Toy Invasion 2, an international art toy show presented by Utop1a Street, at Mercado de Tapineria in Valencia.
