What will become me - Martin Sati

What Will Become of Me

"What Will Become of Me" is a drawing book made using screen printing, with a distinctive technical and conceptual feature: it’s printed in two identical magenta inks, but one of them is ephemeral. Upon exposure to oxygen, this ink gradually fades until it completely disappears within two to four months. It’s not a printing mistake nor a factory flaw—it’s the very core of the project.

This book isn’t meant to be viewed just once, but rather experienced over time. Its images don’t simply vanish—they transform. What fades gives way to new forms, graphic remnants that engage in dialogue with what remains. The aim isn’t to dramatize decay, but to expose the fragility of the visual medium, time as a design tool, and forgetting as an active component of the image.

The central theme is finitude. Not as a melancholic statement, but as a visual exploration of things. What endures? What changes? What disappears? In line with a logic that echoes contemporary thought on images, these drawings aren’t static objects—they are traces in transformation, visual memory reshaped by time.

Each copy was handcrafted in a limited edition of 25 units. Manually bound, printed in two inks (one designed to vanish), it becomes an experience triggered the moment the package is opened. From that instant, time starts ticking.

The final outcome is never the same. Each book becomes a graphic fossil, a unique testimony of its own disappearance. An open-ended game, unresolved—just like life itself. It’s a device for thinking through images, through what is lost and what transforms.