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A game about skipping stones on water. The water, the stone and the splashes are drawn in ASCII characters, while the physics of the throw is real: angle, force, number of bounces.

In real life this small pleasure needs time, a calm day and the right shore. Here it is available any time, as many times as you like. The work was shown on tablets in a group exhibition about games as a way to briefly escape reality.

The festival grounds stretch over dozens of hectares, and mobile coverage is patchy. Screen is a way to send a message without a phone.

The translucent canvas is visible from both sides. A spotlight turns anyone who steps into the beam into a shadow. Gestures, letters and silhouettes can be read from far away: the bigger the screen, the further the message travels.

The edge of a forest has countless entrances: you can step in between any two trunks. The project picks one of them and turns it into the main portal.

The projection draws figures made of ASCII characters onto the trunks and branches. The abstract wall of spruce gets a human, recognisable image: columns, faces, silhouettes at the entrance.

A competition by Meganom for a pavilion made of two hundred boards. Our project reached the final and was built in Nikola-Lenivets.

The wooden deck is raised above the field. Openings are left in it so the grass keeps growing through, and the pavilion becomes part of the meadow instead of pushing it out.

You can feel nostalgic for a place you have never been. Our generation has such places: meadows, hills and empty hangars from video games where we wandered for hours.

Sometimes we recognise them in a real landscape. The project brings a game landscape into the Fabrika space: a field of grass under the workshop roof and a screen where the horizon should be. The viewer stands inside a familiar picture and cannot remember where they know it from.