Craig Jacobson

Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid (Elliot) struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognize the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.

Strange things start to happen to Alicia and her husband Jason after she receives a gift in the mail from her great-Aunt Gwen, is their house haunted or has the family been cursed, or is it something far darker?

Wireboy is a visual representation of cyberspace, sexual desires, over-stimulation, surveillance, identity, depravity, and corruption. Representation of the self and the future that is being born out of media and culture is explored through metaphor using various characters: Wireboy, has a bizarre intimate relationship with a mysterious artist/controller, enslaved monsters, a deformed model, and innocent children who are intrigued by this constructed world which all takes place in a deteriorating cyber reality.

Artist Statement: "Lovesick" is an abstract analysis of idealization, objectification, and the Other; a dark fantasy peering into how we view and explore the complex darkness of human sexuality.

The Return of the Näcken is a gothic horror tale about a lonely water demon and her quest for human souls focusing on the existential anguish of being an enchanted creature doomed to an immortal life filled with grief, isolation, and loss.