Death Loop 1: Eternal Andy
The Structure of Feeling
Original sound design composed by Mira Calix
This series of NFT’s consists of loops of the artist rendered as a cartoon version of himself based on his character that narrates the film Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape and the sequel Structure of Feeling. In this work the cartoon artist is subjected to a cartoon death - based on moments of animation from classic Wile E. Coyote and Tom and Jerry Cartoons. The death is rendered as a perfect loop, never dying but caught in a perpetual cycle, as if in a digital purgatory.
In Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape the artist declared that the world had become a cartoon, and to understand the world we must examine how physics and logics works in cartoons and that the artist must too become a cartoon character. In the sequel, Structure of Feeling the artist explores the outer edges of the cartoon world to see what might be coming next - a total split away from the body into a digital space, whilst simultaneous returning to an isolated, bodily existence. This series of NFT’s explores the idea of the cartoon death as metaphor: the cartoon landscape as a space where you don’t die but get temporarily bent into the form you come into contact with (a wheel, a large rock etc.) only to later bend back into shape.
The sale of proceeds from this work will go directly to support the renovation and re-opening of Ex-Baldessarre, a not-for-profit project space run by the artist that has been staging exhibitions in Bedford since 2018. The carbon footprint of the minting of the NFT will be offset to the best of the artist's ability, calculated using Arial.
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