LOST SECTORS

While White has held a deep interest in games for almost his entire life, he’s largely stayed away from them in his work. There was a commission for Capcom at the launch of Street Fighter IV, but by and large White keeps hobby and work separate. Yet he does have ideas. “I think often of servers being turned off on games,” he says. “All these environments – Dust2 in CS:GO, Crash in

COD4, things like that – when you can’t play the games anymore, you’ll still be able to recall every doorway, every sightline, in photorealistic detail. I think it might be interesting to paint them, so once the games are gone, these places live on.”