Bored Games is a glimpse into one of the many ways I have kept busy while under the Covid-19 “stay-at-home” order. Through attempts to keep my mind occupied and an effort to maintain a sense of normalcy, I have resorted to playing old board games hidden and scattered throughout the house. In playing these games, relationships between them have risen to the surface, both visually and conceptually. In this series of images, I have taken these board games, and fabricated still life arrangements that meld multiple games into one chaotic surface. By combining these games, I hope to highlight not only common visual threads, but address how this additive quality creates narratives of colonialism, capitalism, and suburban homogeneity. As these topics end up subverted as a culturally accepted pedagogy of our youth, their social impacts go largely unnoticed evasively perpetuate modern attitudes.
