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LUDUS MAGNUS — Modern Life, Unearthed
What would remain of our everyday lives if someone unearthed them centuries from now?
Inspired by the Getty Museum’s Statue of an Athlete, LUDUS MAGNUS imagines a museum of our present: ten classical marble sculptures preserving the ways we play, move, escape, connect and dream.
A basketball player hangs forever before the shot; a breakdancer balances upside down beside a stone boombox; a woman raises her phone to capture a moment that has already outlived her.
Built around a custom Recraft Style drawn from the archive sculpture’s pale marble, weathered surfaces, irregular fractures and quiet museum lighting, the collection carries these familiar gestures into an imagined archaeological future, where a surfboard, a vinyl record, a VR headset or a drone becomes a clue to the lives once lived around it.
Across all ten works, chipped stone and missing limbs leave the viewer to complete the movement—to recognise the ambition in a leap, the intimacy of listening, the desire to be remembered, and the enduring human impulse to reach beyond ourselves.
The objects tell us when. The gestures tell us who.
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LUDUS MAGNUS — Modern Life, Unearthed
Behind the scenes — LUDUS MAGNUS
Two short walkthroughs showing how the archive reference became a custom Recraft Style, and how that Style was used to develop the collection.
01 / Creating the Custom Style
From the Getty Museum’s Statue of an Athlete to a visual language of pale...
LUDUS MAGNUS — Poster series / 01–04.
Modern life, preserved in marble.
LUDUS MAGNUS — Poster series / 05–08.
Modern rituals. Ancient gestures.
LUDUS MAGNUS — Poster series / 09–10.
The final two pieces of the collection.
Ten posters. Modern rituals, ancient marble.
Modern rituals carved in marble works really well. Strong series.
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