Shoryuken
9" x 12"
Acrylic on Wood Panel
2014
This May, I finally created the third installment to my "Street Fighter" series of paintings. Produced for "Game Over", a video game themed group show hosted by Giant Robot.
The foundation for this series comes from one of my more popular paintings: "Possessed". In it, my blood soaked bear is 'possessed' by the devil with a video game controller (Specifically an Atari 2600 controller). The segue between this painting and video game themed narratives seemed only too perfect.
After creating this third painting, it came to me that this might make a fun series of mini figure toys (in the style of Japanese Gashapan/Candy toys). If whoever wants to produce this series wants to do this, then I'm probably going to have to explore another 3 moves. I wonder which ones I should do...
You gotta do Hadoken, you just gotta! It's a classic move. Maybe a Tatsumaki, I hope you share what moves you do end up going with if you have someone willing to produce them as toys. Good luck :)
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