Here Be Monsters Letting the Days Go By: The Historical Horrors of Pentiment By Emma Kostopolus • April 9th, 2025 The history we record and maintain is a “fable agreed upon” written by the people in positions of power.
Mind Palaces Where in the World Is William of Baskerville? By Maddi Chilton • April 8th, 2025 Obsidian set themselves an interesting task in translating a story that’s legendary for being dense and obscure into an interactive medium.
Feature Excerpt Painting the Past With a Broad Brush By Saniya Ahmed • May 19th, 2023 Intimacy and ordinary life in art is lacking when attention goes toward religious and imperial powers. Mundane, everyday things are forgettable and not as well-preserved through time as a monument.
Feature Excerpt The Future Will Forget Us By Ben Thorp • April 21st, 2023 Season and Pentiment on how art fails to capture our complicated present.
Pentiment: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Murder By Francisco Dominguez • January 10th, 2023 Once you’ve dismantled religious conviction and the formative myths behind a place’s existence, what comes next?
Friction Burns Power Without Control In Pentiment By Ruth Cassidy • December 21st, 2022 Pentiment is a game about the changing balance of social power, and this uncomfortable dinner sets the stage for how even words are catalysts of change.
