5G Explorer is a series of collages and screenshots taken from games I've made this year within Unity game engine. The images tell a loose narrative based upon one of the games, 5G explorer. The player activates a network of telecom beacons in order to strengthen and grow the power of a huge, otherworldly embryo. This narrative uses monuments and mythology to analogise our modern pursuit of technology, and the fear and unknowing of the future it projects.

The images are captured as Video game Photography: screenshots taken in-game and from within the game building and editing environment. Some of the images have been collaged within Photoshop by compositing together screenshots, science magazine scans, and found digital media. After this, the colour tones have been heavily modified to emphasize the light-play and atmosphere of each scene. Finally, selective areas of the images were removed and re-made using Photoshop's 'Smart Fill' AI to make them uncanny and dream-like.

States of mental disarray have become a reoccurring theme in my work this year in an attempt to process world events and my own fragile existence. This has become entangled with preexisting themes in my work of 'New sensations of an online age'- I am interested in the range of sensations experienced in digital spaces; from excitement, entertainment and mania to listless misery and intense introspection.

Machinima,
Dissonant and Lonely, empty server,
incomplete, half-asleep,
Monumental assets,
- 5G