Ebel Elzes
He/Him
The Netherlands, 2001
ebelelzes.com // @ebel.elzes
Thesis: Hellmouth
What stories do you tell yourself just to make it through a Tuesday?
Cowboys & Computers is an illustrated experience that invites you to find your way through a life sized installation resembling familiar scenes; a bar, an apartment, an office. These symbolically loaded spaces, through which we manoeuvre in our day to day lives, are environments that come with their own quiet struggles. Indulgence, negligence, distraction; ways of coping that are mostly invisible, mostly private, often improvised. Hidden in plain sight.
Within this installation, you’d encounter a playable, digital walk-through adventure: a journey shaped by the questions it asks. It’s something about how we get by, the ways we perceive. Questions about how you navigate routine, absurdity, and the increasing solitude of modern life.
The right answer might not exist.