Nowadays I appreciate Katsuya Terada's illustrations of games such as The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, featuring trinket-laden, patina-worn interpretations of the comparatively pristine original character designs, far more than I had when I first encountered them in the early 1990s. The line-drawn textures evoke a tactile physicality of the worlds I explored in my youth, and I hope some of that idea can be seen in my painting here.