Video Game Installation
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My Easy Shaker Yoke Face is an absurdist computer game that plays with the historical lineage of the American Shaker tradition. Taking and expanding upon the Shaker's understanding of labor and religion, best summarized in the common Shaker phrase "Hands to Work, Hearts to God," My Easy Shaker Yoke Face attempts to work through the relationship between contemplation, transformation, and labor. Players navigate a room filled with absurd objects and machines attempting to understand which machines and objects transform each other. As players gain knowledge of the system, the process of creation and transformation repeats until the player successfully makes a sculptural portrait in the center of the room.
The following documentation includes installation photographs of the work at Gameplayarts in Los Angeles, CA as well as screen captures of the work.