New SUM Game Perspective | Winter Transformation

In the quiet the snow offers, study and consideration continue.

The still-now game board is the real-world version of a well-known game that some have called “Colonization, the Board Game.” The absence of people in that version was the impetus for this work.

Where there were categories representing only resources available for the taking and managing in the original, the cards here present situations that the artist considered in our local reality.

Last on public display at Roots Zero Waste Market in Garden City, Idaho, during FlipSide Festival for the Fall of 2023.

Viewers were invited to:

Check out the playing cards at their leisure. Consider what they would do, what moves they’d make.

To stand and look over the board, a different view of our collective home here in the Treasure Valley. Realize they too are a player in this game, and we are all influenced by the decisions made here.

They were invited to hold the responsibility of big dreams as they stood there.

Or, consider that they are among the pieces that other big dreamers are moving, perhaps even hoping to reach for, imagining something to life.

Each piece of the board is home to thousands of stories unfolding daily. That may be what made gameplay feel so weighty in the majority of the first sessions.

Gameplay continues to shape development.

Join the dynamic and help the game along.

Consider some spoilers/answers/opportunities to learn more about what prompted these cards.