Material World Knight: Vajra Power” is a video loop rendered from within Lu Yang’s computer game “The Great Adventure of Material World.” This capture is the hero shot of the Material World Knight powering up with their weapon. The main game character, Material World Knight, completes quests and battles enemies together with other characters drawn from the artist’s earlier works, while undergoing multiple identity transformations as the game moves beyond tropes of popular manga culture to explore the control of identity liberated from the rigid confines of nationality, gender, and sexuality.

Video (color, silent)
1920 × 1080 pixels, 30 fps
27 seconds, loop
Apple ProRes 422 Standard 1 edition, 1 publisher proof