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Arlo Sinclair, Blow Me (GB), 2025

Arlo Sinclair

Blow Me (GB), 2025
Oil on canvas
1/1 Unique
Signed on verso + COA
Unframed: 60 cm (W) x 70cm (H)
Framed: 70cm (W) x 80cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Series: Painting
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Arlo Sinclair’s Blow Me (GB) continues his exploration of obsolete technology as both cultural relic and satirical object. Rendered with meticulous realism, the work transforms a Nintendo Game Boy cleaning...
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Arlo Sinclair’s Blow Me (GB) continues his exploration of obsolete technology as both cultural relic and satirical object. Rendered with meticulous realism, the work transforms a Nintendo Game Boy cleaning cartridge into a painted artifact that straddles nostalgia, parody, and critique. Sinclair heightens the absurdity of consumer culture by reimagining the cartridge’s label with biting textual interventions: “SPEND CASH ON EVEN MORE USELESS CRAP” and “IF THIS DOESN’T WORK… BLOW ME.” The familiar ritual of blowing into cartridges—an unofficial but universally remembered fix among gamers—becomes a symbol of both frustration and affection, highlighting the quirks of outdated technology and the myths built around it.

By isolating the object on a stark white ground, Sinclair amplifies its presence as both icon and commodity, elevating plastic and circuitry into the language of painting. The piece engages with the traditions of Pop and Urban Contemporary Art, echoing Andy Warhol’s consumerist silkscreens and subversive culture-jamming strategies, while also drawing upon the aesthetics of advertising and meme culture.

Blow Me (GB) ultimately reflects Sinclair’s wider project of mining the material and visual debris of technological progress. It probes the intersection of memory, obsolescence, and capitalism—inviting viewers to laugh, reminisce, and reflect on the ways in which even the most disposable tools of play become charged with meaning once time renders them redundant.

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