Flatworld 64

2019 - 2020
Queer Spectra Arts Festival, Utah, USA
Metro Arts, Brisbane
The Mill, Adelaide

Flatworld 64 is a series of digital paintings which co-opting the design language of 90’s collect-a-thon video games. I invite audiences to step into a flattened, graphic world. I offers audiences a momentary escape from the noise of navigating heteronormative daily life. I think of them as perhaps paintings, or perhaps screenshots of a queer videogame landscape. This series of bright, digital paintings are made up of gestures and painterly marks translated into a digital realm. Low-resolution & pixelated graphic shapes sit alongside digital airbrush and drop shadows, giving a sense of collapsed perspective and a non hierarchical plane of existence. Building on the themes of ‘collectables’ each painting has an amount of diamonds hidden in each painting. Encouraging analogue/physical interactions with the flattened digital worlds.

Materials: Digital Paintings (as digital element), Digital Paintings Printed on Paper and Canvas and Video Elements.