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“I didn't have an active personal website for quite a long time already. Working on this one revitalized my deviant pleasures in execution. Hopefully you also like it. I rarely give comments on it, especially in the written form, as writing something is the ultimate repetition of words. If you say something, it can and in most cases will disappear into the limbo, with no consequences to the fragile structure of your external persona. When you write something it’s now carved in stone that repeats you as many times as someone lays their eyes on the text.
But often we hate to repeat ourselves. It's very obvious why. Then our words lose the necessary ambiguity that protects the identity of the speaker. Jokes are a great example. Whenever you try to explain the joke to someone who didn't get it, you immediately anticipate the void that comes after the explanation. Because then everything becomes clear, too clear to be funny. And the momentum is gone, too. Works are a joke.
A big part of my deviant pleasures lies in forgery. For that reason I decided to personally work on the pixel-art cats that I hand-pixeled because I promised myself to imitate authenticity. But while drawing the cats as this pixel-art forger, an evil deceiver who tried to manipulate the virtual landscape in order to finish a seemingly authentic product, in that moment I felt a different kind of process.
As you know, pixel-art, although partly related to videogame heritage, in the early-to-mid days of the internet became something standalone. People found the restraints of this "medium" appealing. The amount of nuance you can express within just four pixels, the relation and the illusion created by these squares, almost reminded me of the intricate works with engraving and graphics. But whilst graphics and printing have the physical end product, pixel art almost doesn't have it. It's not a commercial medium by any means. You can't just create a pixel artwork as it is and sell it in a gallery. The only instances of commercial pixel-art had additional parameters. On its own it's just a craft, very precise and passionate, that only exists because of the desire to make it and to be seen. Only by going through forgery did I manage to experience something authentic.
That’s why jokes, in some sense, don’t fully exist, as even the most constructed joke can reveal the most deviant secrets of one’s perverted mind.”
-DvE
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