/ move around the room / look at the things / zoom in on the details / pick the things up / put the things down / inspect the things / think about the things / put the things together / maybe make a thing-face /

Taking and expanding upon the traditional American Shaker understanding of hard labor and religion, best summarized in the common Shaker phrase “Hands to Work, Hearts to God,” My Easy Shaker Yoke Face is an absurdist computer game that attempts to work through the relationship between contemplation, transformation, and labor. Players navigate a room filled with absurd objects and machines trying to understand how they transform each other, repeating the process of creation and transformation until the player successfully makes a sculptural portrait in the center of the room.