Teacher: Marika Brousianou
Grade: 10
Materials: Acrylic paint, and fuse beads glued on Canvas
Dimensions: 9x12x0.5
Artist Statement:
There were times in middle school when my dad and I would stay up late in the living room on a school or work night, eating snacks and playing the first Nintendo system on the TV. At the moment and even now it feels like a distant dream, we were so invested in beating those levels that we lost ourselves in the game, and the world outside us just disappeared. In a way, we were stuck in a dream, a dream of nostalgia. In order to convey the blank canvas into a video game I sketched out the game and the machine, then painted over the sketch with acrylic paint to make it vibrant. To give the actual game inside a pixelated effect I then hot glued the fuse beads to the canvas. When the audience looks at this piece I want them to be reminded of the way our imaginations can take us back to our childhood similar to the way dreams do. When playing a video game you’re interested in, that’s all your mind is stuck on. For me nostalgia is a kind of dream, always wanting to go back, regardless of what was going on at the moment. I was always stuck in the past, like a dreamer stuck between waking up and sleeping.
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