Mobilitas Mori
1984 - Present
Description
Using tickets and boarding passes as its collage, Mobilitas Mori explores the relationship between mobility and mortality. Boarding passes and tickets—symbols of modern freedom— are disrupted by black erasures and visceral red paint. Information is obscured, identities dissolved, and order fractured.The work reflects on how systems of movement both enable and erase human presence. By merging the language of travel with gestures of rupture and decay, Mobilitas Mori suggests that impermanence is inseparable from motion. Every journey carries its own ending.
Artist Notes
Mobilitas Mori is a mixed-media reflection on movement as both privilege and vulnerability. Constructed from my own boarding passes and tickets thorugh a decade and a half—the work uses the language of mobility to show impermanence, erasure, and mortality. The title reconfigures memento mori into a condition of motion: to move is also to decay, to cross is also to disappear. Black painted bands interrupt the surface, obscuring names, numbers, and destinations. These gestures function as acts of censorship and forgetting, echoing how systems of travel reduce individuals to data while simultaneously denying access, visibility, or permanence. A dense, fractured diagonal form cuts through the ordered grid, suggesting rupture, an irreversible moment. This moment has become my daily moment. Red pigment bleeds downward, evoking bodily fragility and the inevitability of loss. Gravity becomes a collaborator, reinforcing time’s irreversible pull. Mobilitas Mori is a tension between freedom and finitude.
