Hey guys, a good friend of mine recently started a series of video game-themed artwork meant to make comment on various controversial aspects of the gaming industry and she asked me to stick this here in case some of you may be interested.
The first of four pieces(? or at least I know she's done four already, not sure if there are more planned) has been released, and is available to view on her new tumblr page, while 8x10 prints are available on her Etsy page for $10, while the original one-of-a-kind piece is also available for $3,999 (I doubt anyone here would want to buy it for that much, but I figured I'd include it too, lol).
Immersion (Piss Mario) by Allix Barrett
This work is a social commentary on the chloreic nature of the collecting and selling community of Nintendo’s popular wireless communications and storage device toys, the amiibo. Recent scalping, price-gouging, and market speculating on the Mario - Gold Edition Super Mario (Wave 1)amiibo has incited the artist to create her own Mario - Gold Edition amiibo by taking a Mario Super Smash Bros. (Wave 1) amiibo and submerging it in a container of the artist’s own urine. The container was then photographed with a professional DLSR camera and put on display. Prints of the artwork and the artwork itself are for sale, much like the amiibo themselves.
