This is an old painting from 2010 that we did after an internship at Garage Games. Actually it is a painting about what we have to do now. We have to go sky fishing. What is sky fishing? It's this lifestyle of not walling yourself in to any grunt work and living life in a more pleasure-seeking way. We made allot of texture work at Garage Games on guns, props, and sci-fi walls. Scrab lines and surface definition dominated our summer, but before we left, we saw some airship concepts hanging on a mood-board for a social game in development that never made it out the door. These ship drawings triggered a memory in Sanders of the game Final Fantasy 4, which he had a childhood fascination over. He specifically liked to pilot airships around the over-world, visit the game's locations, and talk to NPC's.

When our internship concluded and we arrived home, all we wanted to do was design an airship for ourselves. An open blue sky with a mystical moon was an image that contrasted with all of the heavy brooding over sci-fi we had done throughout our Garage Games experience. Sci-fi theming, however, wasn't fully abandoned for fantasy here. We wanted to design an airship that was a post-apocalyptic combination of scavenged tech and primitive boats. We were excited over this compromise and wanted to built a world out of it. This is because our life situation is something like a strange fantasy where a boat can fly and birds are fish swimming around in clouds. These are things that probably won't exist. Mind Control probably won't either, even though it does - most people just don't know that its possible. We're not so interested in talking about this image, the experience of painting this picture was really to relax.

Relaxing over digital art is what we need to do right now. We have so many or things that could be on our minds, and they are very challenging creative goals. Maybe you don't chase them, and just hang out. The thing about painting like that is that you just get to sit around and wonder. In our personal art, we like to make people wonder as well. But wonder how?

In the case of this painting, it is a combination of pleasant ideas that don't exist in reality. The moon in the background adds a celestial element to the piece. It's inclusion makes everything feel a little spiritual. Humans get like that over moons and suns. It reminds me of sitting next to a water sculpture meditatively trickling. How wonderful would it be to just get tricked into a meditation and make nothing of yourself? If you have a BCI, you can have that problem. You can solve it by embarrassing yourself into work-lust. The thing about flying sail ships is that they're awesomely unique. To us, they're sort of like throwing your arms up and saying, "this shits cool and it doesn't make any sense," and then you want to laugh at it. I put a funny face on it for that reason... To us it is a form of desensitization over some of the problems in our lives. After Sanders's brain damage and having spent many years guiding him through schools we really wanted life to have nothing but this meaningless void of fun ideas. Or, even worse, life that shouldn't be taken seriously in any way.

We felt like this, but when time came to just lose our shit with Sanders, we didn't because we were surrounded by creatives that had functioning lives. These people should want to live in a world where Sanders could exist as one of them, and I wanted that to happen for him desperately at times and knew painfully that I wasn't up to the task. I want them to understand that we're hurting to see this happen now as a result of what we've been through recently. We like being shown the right answers, we like it more when we come up with our own.