2021-2023
VR
I build a forest not from soil and seed, but from light, code, and memory. This is not an escape. It is a reimagined ritual space, a speculative ecosystem where ancient myth meets a digital future.
The work is rooted in Yaoji, the mountain goddess of Chinese myth, guardian of forests and bringer of clouds. I find her spirit echoed in mycelium: quiet, unseen, binding worlds beneath our feet. In this virtual terrain, mushrooms colonize imagined beings. Deer and lions pass through the same air. The ground breathes with hyphae, hinting at a hidden consciousness.
I choose VR for its ceremonial potential, not its novelty. It makes myth tactile and lets us rehearse different relations to land, even through a screen. Friction lives here: technology with spirit, ruin with repair, presence with projection.
I want viewers to feel wonder and a slight unease. To be drawn in, then slowed by questions. How far have we drifted from the rhythms of living systems? What kinds of kinship are still possible? Can return begin in a place made of light if it leads us back to care.