Elena Misako Smillie

"“In a digital world where entertainment competes for our attention at every moment, it is getting increasingly harder to detach yourself from the internet. In this constant overstimulation, I often feel a sense of confusion as if things that are real and aren’t are blurring together. Inspired by this feeling, ""Really Real"" mimics familiar objects in my current reality into low polygon objects, something that has nostalgic qualities from the early gaming aesthetics. It is something that feels like a liminal dimension in between ours and something that exists solely on a screen. The result is an object that resembles the real world but doesn’t belong to it. The “asset” feels hollow, strange, confusing.”"