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Thymine’s [SELECT START: Harmony] haunts us with Game Boy ghosts, slimes, and devil girls ⊟
LA micro-gallery Capsule Corner is hosting another collection by Thymine with 30 custom cartridges (new designs plus reprints from last year’s show) and two painted Game Boys featuring her original artwork. A lot of her artwork for this round are ghosts and slimes, two of my favorite things!
From Thymine’s artist statement:
“I think my art is overall usually seen as cute, but it touches upon darker, bittersweet themes sometimes. Some of the carts are bright and silly, some sad or scary, and some that are inbetween. With this show I wanted to have fun with the carts and this idea. I also wanted to have it as a reminder that with the bad comes the good (and vice versa), & that the darkness and light need a balance of eachother and work in harmony.“
Most of them are sold already, but you can still buy a handful of Thymine’s framed Game Boy carts for $50 apiece – otherwise you can see them all online at Capsule Corner’s site or in person at The Hive Gallery and Studios. The [SELECT START: Harmony] exhibit will run there until July 10.
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Select Start to Continue: Thymine brings bittersweet Game Boy carts to Capsule Corner tonight ⊟
Just earlier this week, I raved about Thymine’s moving concept for Meteor’s My Famicase Exhibition in Tokyo, and now I see the artist has a solo show dedicated to similarly sentimental designs, except this time on Game Boy carts!
Opening tonight (7PM) at Capsule Corner – the “capsule-based micro-gallery exhibit” located at Downtown LA’s Hive Gallery & Studios – Thymine’s Select Start to Continue exhibit features 20 colorful hand-painted Game Boy cartridges with custom labels for titles like Selfcare and Everything Is OK.
“Using a piece of childhood nostalgia as the medium, Thymine portrays a juxtaposition of both light and dark that everyone experiences in life as they grow beyond those formative years. Presenting a wide breadth of emotions, some lighthearted and cute yet others heavy, dark, and solemn. These themes presented in the work are all results of experiences, and interests that have made the artist who she is through out the years – present and past.“
The cartridges will be sold for $45 apiece. You can preview a couple of these touching pieces after the break (Capsule says the show will run until June 13, and all pieces will be posted online after the opening.).
