CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER!

Choose Your Character is a celebration of cartoon characters as a language of expression. Inspired by the grid-screens of classic fighting games and sketches of characters over the years, the works gather these imagined figures into a playful matrix, each one contained with its own attitude and energy. The characters exist in the dichotomy of invention and recognition — informed by the domains of fantasy, the everyday and the personalities that animate media. They carry the exaggeration of cartoons yet are echoes of us. They capture moods, quirks, and aesthetics that make them relatable and invite playful engagement. Fundamentally, it pays homage to the vivid experience of youth, where play and imagination cultivated another world, a world that art will forever try to capture. Like opening a game and hovering over the roster, Choose Your Character revels in the playful abundance of identity and creation.