2021-2023
VR
I build a forest—not from soil and seed, but from light, code, and memory. This is not a place of escape. It’s a reimagined ritual space, a speculative ecosystem where ancient myth and digital future intertwine.
The work is rooted in the story of Yaoji, the mountain goddess from Chinese mythology—a protector of forests, a bringer of clouds. I see her spirit echoed in the mycelium: quiet, unseen, connecting everything beneath the surface. In this virtual world, I let mushrooms grow on imaginary beings. I let deer and lions walk among them. I let the forest floor breathe a network of hyphae, suggesting a hidden consciousness below our feet.
I chose VR not for its novelty, but for its potential as a ceremonial space—a way to make myth tactile, and to explore how we might live differently in relation to the land, even through screens. There is tension here: between technology and spirit, between destruction and healing, between presence and projection.
I want viewers to feel both wonder and discomfort. To be enchanted, yes—but also to leave questioning how far we’ve drifted from the rhythms of the living world. And whether it’s still possible to return.