사운드: 예츠비
NFT 플랫폼: 마스 그린

Pickled City by Yaloo is a series of submerged urban gardens of the not-too-distant future, imagined with the addition of elements reflecting the Anthropocene epoch, natural disasters, urban architecture influenced by technological development, and the human body. Over time, the artist has collected various images across digital media that reflect her interests, including environmental pollution, rising sea levels, anthropocentric thinking, and terraforming. Using these assembled 2D images (including Instagram memes, online streaming documentaries, and blog posts), she creates new images in 3D virtual space.

Yaloo suggests a new urban world view as she explores the delicate interrelationships between the virtual and real, above water and underwater, manmade nature and nature as a whole. Her urban plants may appear to breathe or to float in the water as organic shapes with viscera, with objects and textures that evoke urban architecture. The plants in Pickled City are presented in NFT form, each of them observable from two to four different perspectives; each one is a part of a series and unique artwork in its own right.

Yaloo’s approach involves the use of KitBash—an asset or commercial kit primarily applied in the gaming industry—to create her work with “urban kits,” which represent the most typical means of creating cities. Her approach could be seen as a new concept of collage. It is distinct from previous gaming and 3D industry approaches first and foremost in the way Yaloo uses virtual reality to split up her shapes by hand (motions) for modeling and rendering. It also follows a DIY approach that contrasts with the established method of construction based on different pipelines, including sculpting, modeling, and rendering. In the context of new media, this is similar to the workflow in which artists use existing tools to develop their own approaches, presenting experimental work in adventurous ways.