A seismic event in my early teens was going into a chip shop and leaving it having seen the future alongside my by now stone cold chips. It was the silicon chip that would now dominate every lifestyle. The Space Invaders console in the corner had every kid distracted from their post-industrial surplus to employment requirements fate. Other coin ops would follow of course but this illuminated sentinel emitting the synthetic sounds of tomorrow was the emissary of celebratory misspent youth and pocket money.
- Media: wood engraving
- Dimensions: 102 x 68 x 7cm
- Price: £1900.00
But that was almost so long ago that it's nearly time for the event to pass from memory into history so timely artefacts are urgently required. Invaders of Old is a shamelessly nostalgic engraving that signals the end of waiting for your elder brother to come home from the pub to play a board game. The tactile characters are lovingly reproduced for you to touch a little social history that may have passed you by whether you witnessed it first hand or not. Now immortalised in seared redwood, the tight woodgrain will ensure that it's never game over player one.
Other images of Invaders of Old by Stephen Farley ARBSA