Biorg Trinity: Kiwako Riding a Motorcycle

A Bugler is an entity that can absorb matter through the holes in their hands and fuse with it. The Biorg Trinity depicts a world where such beings are encountered in everyday life. One of the heroines, Kiwako Imoto, is a Bugler who has fused with a motorcycle.

The motorcycle is depicted with its streamlined cover, hubless wheels, and a straight frame. The design is futuristic. With her goggles on and hair wrapped around her neck like a scarf, Kiwako outstretches her arms with her hands firmly on the bullhorn handlebars, her fingers resting lightly on the brake lever to the left.

In contrast to the smooth geometric lines, the hand-drawn sound effects are expressed with roughly drawn text, indicating that the motorcycle has an engine with an insane amount of horsepower, transmitting heavy vibrations throughout Kiwako's body.

The soft, warm body of a woman is contrasted with the hard metal of the motorcycle. This is a common theme that Oh! Great likes to include in his illustrations. But here he adds both speed and time.

Biorg Trinity is a unique Japanese manga in that much of the dialogue in the speech bubbles is laid out horizontally, while the pages are turned from right to left, in standard manga style. Thus, frames flow from right to left, and time flows from right to left.

After a large frame depicting Kiwako's entire body and motorcycle from diagonally above and in front, followed by a close-up of her face, the vertically cropped frame switches to a shot from behind. The ground is drawn geometrically, with pillars of light in the sky. As Kiwako approaches the horizon, she appears to be sitting still instead of speeding. In the following frame, only speed lines can be seen. Nothing is drawn in the next two frames depicting the passage of time.

The motorcycle must have been roaring as it speeds along, but time stands still, and the space that must have been real has now become abstract, and even abstract time and space seems to fade into the distance.

We have chosen this specific scene for our first opportunity to produce a work of art by Oh!great on a large flatbed letterpress. It is a scene where a soft female body, a hard machine, and roughly drawn sound effects all coexist.

To achieve both delicacy and impact, the screentone sections were separated and offset printed, and lines were printed with a letterpress. The patterns and lines have been produced using two different printing methods on Gmund Cotton Max White, a fine art paper made of 100% cotton.

The word "metaverse" has been in the spotlight again, and the Biorg Trinity is a work that transverses, destroys and recombines multiple metaverses. The excitement of this scene heralds the emergence of a new horizon, a new black hole.

• Signature on the print (handwritten)

• Due to the nature of the cotton paper, small black spots may be seen in the work. In addition, subtle color irregularities and small ink droplets may be present as a result of the letterpress printing process. Please be aware of this when applying.