Cara’s practice explores the relationship between the digital and physical realm, and investigates themes of play, technology and cyberspace. As someone who grew up during the ‘digital age’, her childhood memories of play are associated with retro video-game consoles. This ongoing theme has become increasingly more apparent during the pandemic, where technology has provided us with much needed escapism. She highlights this: exploring how we can utilise technology to generate joy. Influenced by retro-futurism and childhood toys, Cara combines bright colours and shapes using a hybrid of digital and traditional techniques to create unique pieces. She uses computer rendering to develop imagery, and 3D printing software to materialise these concepts, before connecting separate parts by hand.