紙が動く。まるで意志があるかのように。張り付く。集まる。覆う。起きる。縮む。移動する。揺れる。盛り上がる。金属の性質を帯びると、それまで静かに佇んでいた紙が、磁気を感じとり、ゆっくりと運動をはじめます。そこには紙らしからぬ能動性と、紙ならではの精緻で微細な振る舞いがあります。人に使われるのを待つのではなく、自ら立ち上がる紙。それは紙が一人称になる、ということかもしれません。機能紙とは、ある明快な目的をもって働く紙のことですが、動詞という機能を手に入れた「動紙」は、紙の可能性を広げる新たな目的語を携えて、あるかもしれない役割を担っていくはずです。踊りを踊るかもしれない。音楽を奏でるかもしれない。ひょっとしたら、空を飛ぶかもしれない。まだ紙が足を踏み入れたことのない領域に向かって、動紙は動きだします

This paper moves, as if it had a will of its own. Having taken on the properties of metal, paper that had previously been still and silent now begins to move gradually in response to the pull of magnetism. It sticks. It gathers together. It covers. It stands up. It shrinks. It shifts location. It shakes. It swells up.Paper as a verb (a doing word) demonstrates activity that is quite unlike what we expect from paper,but at the same time it has subtle and refined paper-like characteristics. This paper gets up on its own, without waiting to be used by a person. Perhaps this means that paper will develop a first-person attitude.High performance paper is paper that functions with a clear objective. However, having taken onto itself the functionality of a verb, the paper should next become transitive,taking an object that extends the potential of paper, and assuming the appropriate role, if that exists. It may dance. It may play music.It might even fly through the air. Paper Verb is beginning to move towards a realm where no paper has gone before.