Becky Schaffer reworks needlepoint kits to add in subversive videogame elements, like Lara Croft standing astride a pretty meadow. The Game Girl Advance article is from 2003, but these landscapes still entertain and enlighten.
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Schaefer feels there are strong parallels in the ‘boxing-in’ of experience that craft kits and mass-release games like Tomb Raider offer. In both cases, a smoothed and prefabricated reality provides entertainment to fill and define idle time. Recombining the bucolic/domestic and the erotic/violent helps Schaefer to expose these similarities and to remind us that we’ve checked out of everyday messy existence, whether threading our needle, or booting up our pc.
(via Wonderland)