Hand painted pictures of videogame scenes are actually legitimately fascinating to me. Like, from an art criticism perspective I think they’re really cool. A team of developers and paid artists created a virtual world and then a player enjoyed frolicking on their finished canvas, as that first layer of artists intended. The player had an original experience that was impactful enough for them to interpret that experience - Which didn’t actually happen in the physical world - For yet another audience, in a distinctly physical medium, in a style that inevitably blends the representational visuals of the game with the player-cum-artist’s own stylistic quirks. For a game like minecraft, the output looks like it could have come from the cubist era. Picasso or Dali would have probably been fascinated to see this. Magritte would be shocked. Ce n’est pas un portail. In a way, a painted representation of a video game makes the video game actually feel more real. I know that place. I’ve been there.