(Photos by Amy Li)

This 16-page risograph artist booklet gathers reprocessed stills and worldbuilding fragments from InfiniteMother_v1.0 and InfiniteMother_v2.0, the first two cutscenes from Pearlyn Lii’s game-based work. Printed in blue and fluorescent orange at Secret Riso Club on French Paper, the booklet offers a tactile glimpse into a new cosmology rendered.

InfiniteMother_v1.0 Set in a hellish dreamscape that subverts the archetypal shanshui (山水) or Chinese rockery, this first cutscene follows a reconstruction of Lii’s depraved self. Anthropomorphized into an insectoid avatar, she leads viewers through a frenetic quest to win the attention of an emotionally absent mother—one who obsessively cultivates her garden at the expense of nurturing her children.

Informed by viriditas, the divine force of nature, the work’s verdant hellscape becomes the stage for a child contending with unforgiving natural forces in the absence of maternal care. Disguised as a fever dream, the machinima mourns lost time and the erosion of filial piety. The classic beauty of grottos in Chinese mountain-water landscapes is dragged into an underworld yet remains lit in broad daylight—a deliberate irreverence to Lii’s personal cosmology and its diasporic battleground of mother-wound, rupture, and longing.

InfiniteMother_v2.0 The second cutscene continues this interrogation of maternal distance. Here, a persevering cyborgian child withstands the devastation of an emotionally unavailable mother in an autobiographical projection of language and cultural barriers within Lii’s own maternal relationship. Set in an underworld grotto, Mother and Daughter circle the Fetal Peach—a fruit-like fetus and illusory mirror that reflects their conflicting, impossible ideals.

Mother yearns to be free from the burden of motherhood; Daughter craves tenderness. As they fail to find the depth of care or shared language to bridge their worlds, Daughter moves through a complex range of emotions—duty, frustration, grief—before arriving at a quiet release from seeking connection with her nuclear mother.

ARTIST Pearlyn Lii

DIRECTORS Pearlyn Lii Alex Darby Greg Truono Prashast Thapan

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Alex Darby

PRODUCTION & POST-PRODUCTION The Hybrid Studio nonstudio

ANIMATION, MODELING, & CINEMATICS Pariah Interactive

EDITOR Greg Truono

COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Taüs Jafar

PERFORMANCE Rena Anakwe — Voice of the Insectoid (v1.0) Mio Ishikawa — “Mother” (Motion Capture Performance & Choreography, v2.0) Kevin Pajarillaga — “Daughter” (Motion Capture Performance, v2.0)

TYPEFACE Set in the freshly cut Physica by Olympic Studio, an eponymous typeface echoing the cosmological cadence of Hildegard von Bingen’s Physica, her text of herbs, heavens, and healing.

PRINTING Risographed at Secret Riso Club, Brooklyn, NY

PAPER French Paper Co. Insulation Pink — 70 lb Text Whip Cream — 70 lb Text Grout Gray — 80 lb Cover

SPECIAL THANKS Emma Goldberg Liu Ying Zhang Jon-Luke Fillippi