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A captivating work of cultural blending unlike anything created
prior, Andrew Archer's Edo Ball must be seen to be believed. This
series of paintings seamlessly fuses contemporary basketball
imagery with Edo-period Japanese art and culture, with captivating results. Each image riffs on a classic Japanese painting or subject, adding a surprisingly weighty visual twist as Archer's
deft world-building weaves these disparate visual iconographies
into a cohesive whole. Often front and center, an NBA personality
is dramatically reimagined and yet recognizable, surrounded
by the myriad trappings of the "floating world.
See Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa reimagined as
a court bursting apart at the floorboards and carried forward
by a surge of hundreds of basketballs. A Torii gateway becomes
the backstop for a basketball hoop, with a backdrop of mountains
and a vast, snowy sky. Brief, accompanying texts describe the thematic connections between each painting's converging
themes, and explore the roles that culture, community, celebrity,
and games play in our daily lives.