PASTEL SKYCUBES
~ CONTENT GENERATION IN PROGRESS ~
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PASTEL SKYCUBES is a retro fantasy ’verse that draws its inspiration from the urban landscapes of East Asia (Singapore, especially), in the decades that saw the region through to modernity.
As a visual artist, I'm pledged to wonder, and the hope that the aesthetic cues and traditions we've inherited from the past will have a place in our future. Having served their purpose, many of these cues and traditions are quietly but rapidly disappearing, and little attention is being paid to their documentation.
Pastel Skycubes hopes to pay visual reference to that rich, elder world, and the tapestry of stories that breathed and formed amid it. Many of us were considerably younger then, and fresher; on a subliminal level, we associate the visual languages of the past with the childlike wonder they inspired when we first gazed on them.
It is in this spirit that I reinterpret the past in what I hope are exciting, alternative ways that help to channel that lost wonder - perhaps for use in a world we've yet to build.
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SITE GALLERY
SCENE GALLERY
PROP GALLERY
“What IS Pastel Skycubes? It is a windswept world of mighty concrete continents, old world malls, laser-disc jukeboxes, chain submarines, and cloud-shrouded oases of lush, green, highland calm. Its topical parameters are looser than those of Finding Calais, but this retro-oriental futurist fantasy will allow me to pursue and develop many ideas close to heart that a belle époque project probably will not. Ideas from another fast-vanishing world the authorities and wider culture haven’t learnt to protect…… The big dream is to work on these two projects for as much as I can, for as long as I can.”
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“The other world, Pastel Skycubes, is a retro-oriental futurist fantasy of concrete continents pummeled by their ocean world's mighty storms. There are oases of calm, though, where generations of people have managed to go about their business; whose ancestors had taken a shine to the idea of grounding their nascent culture in the revival of aesthetic traditions from the late 20th century's burgeoning far east.”