RGB Doom Guy latest an exorcism of childhood iconography

an exorcism of childhood iconography rendered in the language of metal band logos and propaganda posters

The minimalist palette and confrontational composition sharpen the viewer's focus

21" x 36" (3 feet tall)

suggesting that the boundary between human and machine is not just blurred but interconnected

RGB Doom Guy latest an exorcism of childhood iconographyA devotional object for the age of signal loss and ubiquity at one point in the 1990's Doom was installed on more computers than the Windows operating system. Carefully reconstructed from sprites of Doom Guy with 1% health and hand painted in bands of bruised RGB. The face emerges only at a distance: a low resolution apparition assembled from vertical striations, like a memory buffering in real time. Up close, it fractures into codebars, blocks, and