#printer ink

Cory Doctorow on Jacobin.com.

Also, everyone say hello to Printer Ink

brayer and stencil knife (to include screenprinting) turn into each other

eye-lights are based on printer/scanner buttons

gray is his neutral color instead of brown as another nod to CMYK ink cartridges instead of paint vials (that's tubing in his mouth)

scarf is ribbon cable

uses he/they/it but also uses colors as neopronouns

wearing a tablet glove, happi (kanji for ink on back) over juban, painting coveralls over tattsuke-bakama, and tengu geta (to match festival mask)

Now, to explain how Ink's paints were translated to CMYK:

Cyan is for lamentation– disappointment, fatigue, grief, hurt– magenta is for repulsion– contempt, disapproval, disgust, offense– and yellow is for gratification (appreciation, comfort, fun, satisfaction.

Red (M+Y) is for motivation– aggression, agitation, enthusiasm, tension– green (C+Y) is for interest– attachment, curiosity, desire, inspiration– and blue (C+M) is for aversion– fear, guilt, shame, worry.

Black, put simply, is for sensitivity– not just in a sympathetic sense, but also overall reactivity or situational awareness.

If saturation determines how expressive Print can be, brightness determines how distant. Print can function in grayscale, they'll just range from detached to dissociated; but if they run out of black too, that's when they become completely unresponsive.

Italian advertisement for Giacomo Puccini's opera 'Madama Butterfly' and the Ricordi music publishing house, 1904.