Life is Short Eat the Ice Cream
and Buy the Flowers


A book of 29 original drawings published by Aspidistra Books in Montreal. You can get a copy here.

Inspired by walkthrough videos of 80s computer games, Life is Short Eat the Ice Cream and Buy the Flowers inserts found real life signs into virtual environments lifted from early video games. Some games used as source material include: Time Zone (1981), Salad No Kuni No Tomato-Hime (1984), Ring Quest (1983), Cranston Manor (1981), The Demon's Forge (1981), Mystery House (1980), and Jenny of the Prairie (1983).



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