Otis Huss

My degree project is about how it is to be in, and relate to, our visual world.

Through an anachronistic narrative about the fascination of graphic objects and symbols, I examine an aesthetic appeal through semiotic activity. An activity in which the thinking is fragmented and revolves around inner conflicts, where contradictions=prerequisites. Having decision anxiety, procrastinating and constantly questioning, akrasia or a critical drive and eclectic advantage?

The deck of cards, an object familiar to many, its logic and world of symbolism, enables the sharing of my process and manifests my method. Varied references and interpretations of this object and its imagery opens up the reading and creates conditions for different personal entries.

In Found in the Lake, I take the chance to reconnect to old fascinations: trading cards, symbols and ornaments, and combine these with new semiotics, fonts and publishing.