Fall & Recover

Fall and Recover is a series of pen-plotted artworks created for Soreab's album "CU" (Completely Unstable), released on POLAAR.

The concept comes from Doris Humphrey's "Fall and Recovery," a 1920s modern dance technique built on a simple loop: lose your balance on purpose, then find it again. It mirrors Soreab's own creative process. He makes music when things fall apart. It's how he gets back to solid ground.

The source material was generated with AI video models producing dancers performing fall-and-recovery movements. The AI got the physics wrong. Impossible joints, inhuman anatomy. For this project, the glitch is the point.

Pose estimation extracted every joint from every frame, turning movement into coordinates. Those coordinates became vector paths, and those paths became instructions for a pen plotter. A machine that holds a real pen and draws each line on paper.

Black paper. White ink for structure. Gold ink for depth, applied in two passes. 47 meters of lines per sheet. Because the machine draws with a physical pen, no two plots come out the same.