A memento mori for your digital hands. Close a small wooden box and open it again, and three objects appear, different every time. Some of them change, break, decay or fall apart; a flower blooms, a bubble pops. A gold star is awarded every time three identical objects appear. After the vanitas still lifes of the 16th and 17th centuries: 35 objects, 24 quotations on life and vanity, and more than 40,000 possible arrangements.
Commissioned, with games by Eric Zimmerman and Jason Rohrer, for the Art History of Games symposium organised by the Savannah College of Art and Design and the Georgia Institute of Technology at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and shown in an installation at Kai Lin Art. Released 4 February 2010.
Design: Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. Modelling, texturing and animation: Auriea Harvey. Programming and sound: Michaël Samyn. Music: Zoë Keating.