Projects
Welcome to Abel Gonzalez Art
In this page you will find content about all of my ongoing projects.
“Heart and Mind: A Journey Through Dreams”
This pixel art game animation explores the subconscious world of dreams through two core entities of the human body: the heart and the brain. Inspired by Undertale and Limbo, the project introduces players to a surreal, emotionally charged environment shaped by the inner state of a sleeping human.
The story unfolds within a silhouette of a body, where the heart and brain exist as animated sprites navigating distinct regions: Heartland and Brainland. The player journeys through shifting landscapes, avoiding nightmare creatures and collecting light, which symbolizes hope and good dreams. Along the way, they encounter emotional hazards, hidden predators, and dream fragments that reflect the mind’s vulnerability during sleep.
At the core of this world is the fragile feeling of being prey. The creatures, such as the Night Fangs and the Void Warden, are born from fear and chaos, existing in a space without hierarchy or order. The light becomes a refuge, a path to survival, and a symbol of the emotional battles we face when we close our eyes.
“Fragmented Pulse”
Fragmented Pulse explores the fragmentation of identity in digital spaces through a series of 3D animated mannequins. Each mannequin performs different types of content, from dances and political statements to viral trends, reflecting the endless scroll of contemporary online life.
Presented through an interactive platform inspired by TikTok, the project allows viewers to swipe through animations, emphasizing how identity is continuously reshaped by digital performance and repetition. The mannequins, neutral and faceless, act as placeholders for the self—empty bodies filled with meaning by each new gesture, each new trend.
By cycling through content that feels both familiar and hollow, Fragmented Pulse critiques the ways digital platforms flatten expression, blur authenticity, and trap users in loops of performative engagement. The work invites reflection on how much of ourselves we leave behind in the scroll.
“Fractured Memories: Learning to Remember”
Fractured Memories: Learning to Remember is a video-based experimental project that dissects how memory is experienced, manipulated, and eventually fragmented through digital media. Using real photographs, AI tools, glitch aesthetics, and emotional soundscapes, the project transforms static images into moving recollections, alive, distorted, and deteriorating.
Each video begins with a single image, a symbol of something once real. From there, the image is broken into four stages: Data Collection, Processing the Memory, Reconstructed Echoes, and Destruction. Through these phases, the image evolves like a dream, shifting emotionally, glitching visually, and collapsing into something half-remembered.
Sound design plays a central role. Paired with ambient tones and AI-generated scores, each piece evokes the feel of a memory resurfacing unexpectedly: warm, haunting, or painful. The work captures fleeting personal sensations: walking under flickering city lights, watching someone from a window, or finding an old photo with a crack running through the smile.
Rather than preserving memory, Fractured Memories accepts its instability. It treats memory as something not stored but constantly rewritten, filtered through technology, nostalgia, and longing.
