An ancient Purim (the Jewish Halloween) tradition is to find your “shadow” – a trait that you hate in yourself, or one that you’re afraid that other people will see – mold that shadow into a character, and come to the Purim fest as that character.
This year was the second time that I’ve participated in a Purim party that puts this ancient custom front and center (which means there’s quite a lot of spiritual/emotional work whole weeks before the party begins) – and it is a thing, in the words of the Gamefeel above, of profound beauty.
There is much strength there, behind the parts of ourselves that we don’t like. There are revelations there. There is life. It is, indeed, the origin story of many a superpower…
GameFeels - Videogame Emotion Expressed In Comic Form
GameFeels is a creative collaboration between Adam Jacks and Ilan Flint, two childhood friends and gaming buddies who decided to channel their mutual love and appreciation of video games into another form of expression – a weekly comic celebrating the poetic beauty, emotion, insight, inspiration and absurdity they observe within digital interactive art.
Completing their triforce is Chunlin Zhao, an amazingly talented visual artist that expertly brings these sequential visions to life.
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