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[oracleandbone]

We’re honoured to announce that Oracle and Bone will be attending “Female Protagonists: International Women Game Makers Week” presented by the Goethe-Institut Taipei. We will be participating in panels and facilitating an interactive workshop. We appreciate Goethe-Institut Taipei and Allison Yang for their kind invitation. We look forward to meeting everyone there.

Information

Female Protagonists: International Women Game Makers Week in Taipei

https://www.goethe.de/ins/tw/cn/kul/sup/gam/ge/ase.html

[oracleandbone]

A borrowed place on borrowed time A city untethered floats

What was left behind in the ocean will reveal The way we were all those years ago

April 23 marks the anniversary of A Summer’s End release. To celebrate our third year anniversary, we will host a week long sale on Steam and itch starting 10:00 AM PDT.

We have updated our website to include a message from our studio and an introduction to our next project, In the Ocean I Learned to Float. 

We hope you look forward to the story and experience we want to create in our upcoming project. We will share more details about In the Ocean on our blog page. Please follow along if you’re interested in knowing more about our development progress. We can’t wait to introduce our characters and their world to you.

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After all I will be the one to hold you in my arms February 16 is Michelle's birthday. She turns 24 in the year of the rabbit. 🐰🌕

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【限额免费读】穿越1986地下香港：女同、欲望与抑郁都市

We had a delightful discussion with Iris from Initium Media. We really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with her for this article and share more about the concepts behind our game. Thank you so much for the interview. The article is a personal and insightful read.

Read article here

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Saturn & Venus

New art account, for a secret romance, and ocean memories. Only sapphic art.

Post bi-weekly. Please look forward to it. instagram @ goodbye.venus

[oracleandbone]

"Come on back to me lover"

December 28 is Sam’s birthday. Happy birthday Sam!

[oracleandbone]

"It's so easy love when I feel your magic holding me"

- Happy Holidays! We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and happy new year. 

To celebrate, we'll be taking part in the winter sale on Steam and itch which will run from December 22-January 5.

We hope you look forward to our future announcements. We'll be providing more updates regarding our upcoming project. Steam / Itch

Thank you very much everyone for your support and cheers all this time.

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‘Duality’

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) inspired original flash tattoo

Hilma was interested in the invisible relationship that shape our world which at the turn of 20th century, the discoveries of understanding of matter and space, greatly inspired her work. Her studies of searching for the deeper meaning in nature, botanically, symbols, geometric, and abstract imagery became the elements in her art. She was a pioneer of abstract art.

The colours can be adapted into black and gray shade as well. Please contact me if you’re interested in them. Message or Email [email protected]

Instagram gallery

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‘Lady Godiva’

Original tattoo design inspired from the 11th century legend of Lady Godiva’s ride through Coventry. Though legend remembers her act as a self-sacrifice under oppressive power, Lady Godiva is often represented in artwork as a tantalising figure, where her nudity is a subject of both shame and beguilement. This artwork is my tribute to her as a historical figure and a reclamation of the image of a nude woman as a symbol of strength and dignity.

Would be an honour to tattoo this work. Bookings open for flash and custom tattoos at Vancouver studio. Please message or email: [email protected] for inquiries. Thank you very much.

IG

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All of my life

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Hello everyone. I'm very sorry I've been absent for awhile. I hope you're doing well.

I hope you don’t mind I want to post a little diary instead of art work this time. Recently, I visited Chinatown Storytelling Centre in Vancouver. I hope that I can do more to support them as well. If anyone is nearby please check out the exhibition.

I’m very happy I found Anita Mui photo book album that was published from 1987 by chance in the old magazine store hidden in the area.

There were a lot of things happened for the past few months. I‘ve started tattooing as my alternate work to support my personal projects and living besides working on illustrations. Due to a personal situation beyond my control, I will no longer be at my previous studio. Unfortunately, I was made to not feel safe in my previous workplace and experienced microaggressions time after time including harassment and homophobia. It has been one of the most difficult and painful time for me. I decided to move to the another studio which is a wonderful place that is diverse and supportive of LGBTQ and BIPOC. I've also created a new profile that I can be myself and do the style that I've always wanted to do. I will dedicate this account to tattoo work specially Instagram @ venus.chariot.ink I really appreciate your support and understanding. Thank you for being who you are and being here for me. I’ll continue to do my best to draw and share illustration to support our community. I hope you will look forward to them as well. Please take care.

Kitsilano beach, Vancouver BC.

[oracleandbone]

Hello everyone. We were interviewed by RTHK 香港電台 as part of their episode on Game Atlas. We’re grateful for the opportunity to share about our game on their program. It’s an honour for us as RTHK’s past programs on art and culture have been a source of reference for us in the making of our game. Thank you to the producers for the feature!

We also want to thank Goethe-Institut Hongkong for inviting us to Game Atlas. We had a wonderful time at the conference. We’re grateful to the organizers and other game makers who made this event possible.

Chinese program: https://youtu.be/R2-tv2B_kyQE

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We had the pleasure of facilitating an Asian and LGBTQ+ employee resource group for Unity this past week. Thank you very much Sharlene Tan and Unity for the invitation. It’s a great honour for us as Asian and LGBTQ+ identifying game creators to lead a talk on a subject core to the creation of our studio and game. During the presentation we discussed the importance of Asian and LGBTQ+ representation in media, our research into the historical background behind A Summer’s End’s setting, including Hong Kong pop culture and Asian LGBQT+ media. A Summer’s End began as a passion project to create a work representative of our cultural heritage and queer identities. We’re grateful to have this opportunity to share our experiences.

We appreciate everyone who took the time out of their busy schedules to attend the talk and we hoped it was an educational experience! Thank you again to Sharlene and Unity for organizing the event. 

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Showa Sanshoku 稚鱼 昭和三色

Illustration and design practice. Ink and watercolour on cold pressed Arches 23 x 18 cm.

Purple Martins

Black line work 5rl 5.5x4.5cm. Work in process, colours to come in next session

Songbirds of the swallow family. Throughout history, many cultures have cherished the swallow as they symbolize the return of spring. Among Romans, swallows are linked with Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

Black line work 5rl 5.7x6.5cm. Work in process, colours to come in next session

flower for my model. Memories that never fade away. We will always remember beautiful moments no matter how many years from now.

Flame 火, Black work 7rl, 7x3.5 cm.

“火 ka or hi” meaning fire is of the five elements “Godai 五大” in Japanese Buddhist thought. Fire represents the energetic, forceful, moving things in the world. Symbolizing also drive and passion, it can be associated with desire, motivation.

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Hello everyone. Thank you so much for your support and following me. I really appreciate it and I can’t express how much you mean to me. I hope you don’t mind me sharing some of my first few tattoos with you. Beside my illustration work and Oracle & Bone projects, I'm also currently apprenticing tattooing. If you're interested and could visit Vancouver recently in please let me know. I'm looking for tattoo models for black work and line work and it’ll be free of charge for you. I can do any design and style. Please contact this email: [email protected] or my studio email: [email protected] to Kanon as it’s my alias name for the studio. I’ll update more work soon and my tattoo gallery is link. Thank you very much.

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Hello everyone thank you for being here with me and for your support all this time. I have something special to share. This year I've had a wonderful opportunity to become a tattoo apprentice. I hope you will join me in the journey of this path as well. IG @ kanon.tattoo Thank you very much.

[oracleandbone]

We're incredibly honoured to be invited to Game Atlas: The Archeology of a World not Far-away.

"Game Atlas: The Archeology of a World not Far-away” aims to communicate ways of using games as a playful media to combine historical story-telling, representation of cultural heritage, community experiences with playful mechanics and virtual world-building. Game designers from Asia and Europe are invited to exchange perspectives and methodologies and explore the power of games in producing contextualised contents for local and global game players.

Curated by Yang Jing (Allison), Game Atlas is co-presented by Goethe-Institut Hong Kong and M+, in collaboration with Current Plans and School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong."

We'll be participating in an interactive forum alongside other amazing game developers and artists on day 3 of the event, October 26, 2022 8:00-10:00 PM HKT (UTC+8). Register to attend online. Watch event trailer.

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Inking and Copic drawing work in process “Song of Sunset” @oracleandbone