Minecraft original painting reveal 4/25: "Aztec2"

As with painting no:2, this one is also from my 2002 exhibition "Free-look Mode" at 'ALP gallery Peter Bergman' in Stockholm. In the CS footage I tried to capture for this clip, the world outside the game map is rendered as graphics artifacts, unlike the images I captured from CS 1.3 back in 2001-2002. Then, those areas rendered as black, which gave a stark contrast to the 'realistic' parts, and enhanced the feeling of floating in a void - like some unholy ghost, now dead, finding the construction of the world revealed. These unintended artistic qualities came about in the clash between the the intentions of the level designer and the limitations of the game engine and hardware, a phenomenon I realized was a crude but beautiful analogy to concepts found in religion and philosophy. I thought it was very poetic. "de_aztec ii" 41x49cm Oil on MDF 2002