As part of the Travelling Gallery’s EAF25 exhibition SEEDLINGS, artist Leo Robinson guided visitors through their single-player quest game Stone Portals — also playable collaboratively — which makes a journey through the feeling of longing for a lost home.

Developed through Robinson’s research, Stone Portals explored questions of ritual, ancestry, and migration, aiming to provide often absent archetypal stories to those searching for a sense of diasporic belonging, and world-building through play.

The game appropriated images from postal stamps in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which depict Carnival from the 1970s to the present day. These images, originally created through a fetishistic and idealistic gaze, are recontextualised to construct new narratives and meanings in conversation with ideas about psychoanalysis, tarot, pop culture, and Afrofuturism, as well as the work of black theorists such as Édouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon.

Related Programme

See more related events and exhibitions:
→ SEEDLINGS: DIASPORIC IMAGINARIES at various venues, East to Leith + To the West

Travelling Gallery is funded by Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Fund programme and City of Edinburgh Council.