PAPER DIGITAL CLOUD – ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT – SPATIAL MUTATION

A spatial mutation: paper becomes a material of transformation.

Valued for its fragility, flexibility, and sensitivity to light, paper is envisioned as a living architectural element, capable of altering our perception of space.

Folded, suspended, projected, torn, or laid on the ground, it does not serve merely as a backdrop. It acts as a dynamic interface between movement, light, and matter.

Its interaction with the body and light sources triggers a chain of spatial mutations:
the space becomes unstable, porous, resonant.
Dancers’ points of contact shift, volumes float, shadows thicken.
The audience no longer perceives space as fixed, but as activated.

This process, called Paper Cloud, is part of an ongoing inquiry within OKUS LAB:
how can a simple material – paper – become a sensor, amplifier, and modulator of perception?

Here, paper becomes an instrument of augmented perception.

Beyond its physical properties, OKUS PAPYRUS carries a strong archetypal symbolism.
The blank page embodies the fertile void — the starting point of all creation, the support of thought.
It crystallizes the idea, welcomes the gesture, receives the light.
A mirror of the unconscious.

OKUS PAPYRUS connects to the long tradition of paper as the foundation of structured thought, while shifting it toward a more gestural, luminous, and embodied form.
Paper becomes a projective surface — a space where we trace, imprint, and project our inner architectures.
From Rorschach inkblots to mandalas or labyrinths, it operates as a soft cognitive interface, a perceptual mutation device.

This modular and adaptive device can take the form of

silent installations,

living scenographies,

symbolic objects, or

participatory workshops.

OKUS PAPYRUS offers an aesthetic that is at once primitive and contemporary, conceptual yet accessible, poetic and sensorial.
Conceived as a minimal architecture with high emotional and spatial impact, the project fits within a transdisciplinary vision where scenography becomes a language, and each element — matter, body, light — contributes to an expanded system of writing.