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LOCKDOWN QUEST

Reinterpretations of the traditional tarot deck, digital illustration.

2020


This work is part of the ongoing Vide Magmas project, an imaginary girl gang of six characters, each a refracted piece of the artists identity. This set of illustrations began in february 2020 prior to the onset of the global pandemic, and continued through it until November 2020. Each card became a reflection of real world events, as the real world leaked into the imaginary world of Vide Magmas.

Tarot decks are often used in divination, but can also become a simple tool for introspection. The tarot is structured like a choose your own adventure game, based on the mythological archetype of the hero’s journey. The symbolism and narrative structure are ambivalent enough to make a kind of sense to the ‘reader’ no matter what arrangement they are in. In this way, the tarot deck becomes like a kind of alphabet, with endless possibility for making meaning. Identity itself is a kind of self-mythology, given structure by the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what made us. During the 2020 covid lockdowns, the creation of this tarot deck became a place where a personal-mythology could be played with in a period of isolation, unknowable futures, and shifting normalities.


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INKTOBER 2021

Digital illustrations, and fictional prose.

2021


This work is part of the ongoing Vide Magmas project, an imaginary girl gang of six characters, each a refracted piece of the artists identity. This set of digital illustrations were made in response to Inktober prompts created by artist Furry Little Peach.

The set became a kind of sketchbook. The initial ‘sketch’ for each prompt was begun as a rough piece of fictional prose featuring one of the six gang members and an accompanying emotion. The writing was then used as a way to visualise a scene that was illustrated. Much like the preceding project ‘Lockdown Quest’, this set of digital drawings built on the idea of a self-mythology, experimenting with playful methods of narrative construction and worldbuilding. The fictional girl gang and their imaginary universe are like a sandbox mode for the artist’s identity, a processing space for slippery ideas.


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VM CLUBHOUSE

360 digital illustrations, animations, 3D Unity environment.

2020


This work is part of the ongoing Vide Magmas project, an imaginary girl gang of six characters, each a refracted piece of the artists identity. The Vide Magmas Clubhouse is an ongoing project, but this is a preview of the work so far.

The clubhouse is made up of three 360 degree two dimensional images that are stretched onto 3D spheres within a Unity environment. The project has been a series of firsts, and a great learning oportunity. It was my first time making these 360 images, working in Unity and learning c++ coding language.

There’s something vaguely eerie about early point and click computer game environments. The restrictive movement, confined to specific points in space as opposed to the free reign of contemporary first person, open world environments, is dreamlike. It’s like running in a dream, moving and experiencing just enough and just little enough as to feel the pull of mystery, of unsettling discord in contrast to the mundane experience of waking life. This is the magic of low-fi. It’s not until you notice the cracks in the pavement that you really notice the pavement. Until then it is just the everyday, the unnoticed. Lo-fi and lowbrow show you the cracks in the everyday and transforms it into the otherworldly and the magical. Suddenly you start to question the pavement, wonder how it got there, who decided it should be here and how it came to be.


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CUSTOM SKATES

Acryla-guache on leather.

2022


These custom painted roller skate boots were commisioned by fellow Melbourne skater and friend Andidextris. The boots were second hand Edea artistic boots, and were painted with acryla guache with acrylic gold highlights. 

To enquire about commisioning your own custom skates please contact via email.


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BROKEN LIMB

Digital illustration.

2021


This piece references photos my friend took of me in the ER after I broke my left wrist roller skating. I was knocked out on a cocktail of drugs so two doctors and a nurse could wrestle my bones back into place. Whilst unconcious I dreamed I was walking through a pink pine forest under dappled light, stepping into pink sheets of my own artwork. My arm was put in a cast, but after six weeks the bones moved and my wrist opened up for a plate to be screwed in. The recovery process began all over again. When I eventually took my second cast off, the scar was swollen and swallowed the little stick and poke moon tattoo on my wrist. As the swelling went down, he eventually emerged again.


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