Toshiya Masuda grew up in the age of boom boxes and tape decks, both technologies that have been devoured by the digital everything devices we carry in our pockets. Masuda expresses the uncanny feeling of digitization with his unique pixellated sculptures of retro tech. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:
[Toshiya Masuda] fuses the low-resolution, pixelated imagery associated with early virtual worlds with quotidian objects from a similar time in pop culture history. Blurry cubes of painted clay form a bright red boombox and cassette tape, a pair of high-top Converse, and a Polaroid camera with a crinkled photo emerging from its slot. By melding the two disparate forms, Masuda creates what he calls an “image gap,” an uncanny feeling in which the unreal is made tactile.
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