My name is Caro or funkyspookycute and I am an artist from northern Germany. My practice focuses on developing video games, creating sound works, drawing and painting. During the process I like to use my imagination to tell stories about broken realities, withering nature and planetary creatures.
Making video games allows me to combine drawings, paintings, sound and storytelling. Games create an interactive way of perceiving art. The player can dive into a variety of worlds and take on different roles. This lets them experience new feelings and thoughts and confronts them with changing ones own perspective. I like to find new ways of gameplay, storytelling and how game worlds are designed to create new challenges and perspectives to perceive.
All my games are available on itch.io.
I am interested in places, which are not reachable for the human being. The gap, which emerges from the imperceptible, creates a room that stirs abstract imagination and can be filled with new forms. These new forms are inspired by nature, already known worlds and things, which are at the edge of being perceivable. They play with human perception and questions of what-if. What if I was outside of the universe?
Starting at the deep sea and asking what could live there, the journey quickly continued in space with stars, planets and black holes. What is it like to be at a place that is physically unreachable? How can something be imagined that is unknown? What does life on another planet look like? After some time in space, the journey left these far away places and returned to the very small and near – quantum particles, microorganisms and ones own inside such as thoughts, feelings, memories and dreams. What if reality or time broke? What if the line between reality and dreams blurred? Everything is just a glimpse into something unknown.