2020
Ah yeah, the beginning of my practice, how nostalgic! The Android! If you’ve come to this section of my works, let me elaborate on some lore! (Lore Below!)
The Android, why the Android?
It actually started at this time, funny enough, March of 2020.
I was in 2nd year of painting class, and the assignment for the students was to make an unconventional surface painting.
I had an idea of wearing my art, which I grabbed a CRT monitor to gut from the inside. The concept was that I would create this cyborg character with a buggy personality.
But then, COVID hits in March. No one could go to school, it was high stressor times. Myself and other peers had to return home, and leave our projects in the studios with no access back until further notice.
Luckily, during this time, I convinced my professor of a digital alternative to my plan and created “CyberGirl in the Cool Space”, a digital painting piece I had thanks to the at-home drawing programs and display drawing tablet I kept at home.Yes, he accepted that.
But what about the Android? What does this have to do with this story?
I had to rethink that first painting. I really enjoyed making that piece, but I felt that creating this particular character was the start of something new and I had to figure out why did I really want to make works with a character with a computer monitor as a head?
To revisit, as in my early preteen years, I enjoyed my years going to anime/comic conventions and would enjoy seeing the many cosplayers, but more specifically the TV head cosplays. They didn’t have any sort of proper origin (except for inspirations such as Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2), but oftentimes you could see them exclusively at conventions.
These humanoids, anthropomorphic heads, had their heads as objects as a symbol or motifs to the environment & environmental situations that they grew up with. With the common use of CRT computers among elder Gen Z folks (with Flash Games & Educational Games), it was to no surprise that that reason I, too, contributed to the globalized form of digital integration as a human.
The mention of the Android was just a wordplay to integrate a human person with a technological part, at first. It had emotions, it had feelings, their pronouns were it/its. Then it integrated as perhaps a visual explanation of personality, mental illness, gender expression via a character.I even quoted often that the way the Android functioned was of a “Windows Vista operating for 20-something years”, something not even meant to live as long as technological equipment.
It actually started at this time, funny enough, March of 2020.
I was in 2nd year of painting class, and the assignment for the students was to make an unconventional surface painting.
I had an idea of wearing my art, which I grabbed a CRT monitor to gut from the inside. The concept was that I would create this cyborg character with a buggy personality.
But then, COVID hits in March. No one could go to school, it was high stressor times. Myself and other peers had to return home, and leave our projects in the studios with no access back until further notice.
Luckily, during this time, I convinced my professor of a digital alternative to my plan and created “CyberGirl in the Cool Space”, a digital painting piece I had thanks to the at-home drawing programs and display drawing tablet I kept at home.Yes, he accepted that.
But what about the Android? What does this have to do with this story?
I had to rethink that first painting. I really enjoyed making that piece, but I felt that creating this particular character was the start of something new and I had to figure out why did I really want to make works with a character with a computer monitor as a head?
To revisit, as in my early preteen years, I enjoyed my years going to anime/comic conventions and would enjoy seeing the many cosplayers, but more specifically the TV head cosplays. They didn’t have any sort of proper origin (except for inspirations such as Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2), but oftentimes you could see them exclusively at conventions.
These humanoids, anthropomorphic heads, had their heads as objects as a symbol or motifs to the environment & environmental situations that they grew up with. With the common use of CRT computers among elder Gen Z folks (with Flash Games & Educational Games), it was to no surprise that that reason I, too, contributed to the globalized form of digital integration as a human.
The mention of the Android was just a wordplay to integrate a human person with a technological part, at first. It had emotions, it had feelings, their pronouns were it/its. Then it integrated as perhaps a visual explanation of personality, mental illness, gender expression via a character.I even quoted often that the way the Android functioned was of a “Windows Vista operating for 20-something years”, something not even meant to live as long as technological equipment.