‘Choose Your Character’ is a collection of new works based off characters from my ever expanding universe. It contains paintings and drawings of these characters on paper and board, with a heavy use of metal leaf and shiny materials.
It is influenced primarily from childhood memories of collecting cards and playing video games. The use of shiny materials such as metal leaf recreates the awe and excited feeling that I had when pulling a rare shiny collectable card from a trading card pack. The works on paper imitate collectable cards from a different world. With writings from untranslatable alien languages and gods from different parts of the realms, while the artworks on boards showcase the divine beings that rule these realms.
The title refers to a phrase often found in video games when selecting a character to play as. Much like a character select screen, ‘Choose Your Character’ features many unique characters, weapons and items from my fictional worlds.
My current practice involves a fictional universe that I have created containing stories, lore, creatures, strange planets and places, magical beings and all-powerful gods, a universe that contains all the artworks I make, in some way or another. The focus of the exhibition is to further flesh out my world building practice, creating many different characters that will be later featured in other artworks, and will add to the foundations of the origins of my universe.