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YOU ARE IMMERSIVE

A room painted by hand in VR, then compiled to walk through.

Dense cyan and white line lace mirrored into a circular mandala on black, with a warm gold rosette at the centre.

Orange rays and pale blue lozenges radiating from a dark hub, forming an eight-armed star on black. — The drawn strokes folded into an eight-point star.

Octagonal mandala of blue and orange line work with small white nodes, running strings of drawn capitals along the diagonals. — Lettering painted into the room, mirrored along the diagonals.

Gold ring of looping strokes around a small blue eight-petal flower, pale blue blades filling the corners on black. — A gold ring closing around a blue centre.

A virtual reality environment painted by hand. The room was drawn in Tilt Brush, line laid down in the air, in colour, at standing height, then carried into a Unity project and compiled into a program you put a headset on and walk through. The square images here are frames of that space, folded through a kaleidoscope until the drawn line closes into a mandala.

Orange flame-like strokes and white outlines arranged in a wide ring over a field of fine turquoise scribble. — Warm strokes over a field of fine line.

Concentric blue and gold rings at the centre of a mostly black frame, with orange strokes reaching to the corners. — A tunnel of concentric rings.

Nothing in the room is modelled. Every surface is a stroke made standing up, so the space keeps the speed and the wobble of the hand that made it. The mirroring is the only thing added afterwards: it takes a loose painted line and gives it a centre.

A visitor in a VR headset seated at a white plinth, the monitor beside them showing pale drawn strokes suspended in a dark space — Shown at Espronceda, Barcelona, November 2020

The station monitor showing the painted room in blue and white line, a visitor in the headset turning towards it — The screen showed the room the visitor was standing in

The viewing station at the exhibition, a monitor showing the blue wireframe world and one visitor in a headset beside it — The station at HYELTW?, Espronceda, November 2020

Made in 2020. The painted sketch was published to Google Poly under his own name; the Unity build carries the product name ENTITY and ships as YAI.exe. It is the root of the portal works that came after, Dome the Portal is built from these same frames.

Medium: Virtual reality experience, hand-painted environment, Unity build
Materials: Tilt Brush painting, Unity 2019.3.3f1, Oculus
Role: Artist and developer
Creative direction: Diana Boier
Photography: Vittor Schetti
Exhibited: HYELTW?, Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona, 2020