VR Project: Isolation of Youth {2023}

 'Isolation of Youth' was a potential VR project based on young people’s Social Battery and Identity. By entering the world in the 21st century, technology is deeply tied to the human existence, and to the social life of young adults (18–24-year-olds) by the use of mobile phones.

Young adults are perceived generally by society as active and social individuals. However, they tend to put themselves in social situations where they are amongst strangers at crowded gatherings. This can lead to them to being constantly overwhelmed and drained of their energy, causing them to “not feel like themselves”. By virtue of being young adults, they are in an ‘in-between state’. As many have recently been uprooted from their childhood homes and are entering the world, their sense of identity can be hanging by a thread.

The glowing heart is a visual concept, a symbol used as a narrative aid. The glowing heart acts as a life-source of an individual, connected to their social battery, their emotional state and identity. When it is drained, the young adult suffers, and will take on the form of a dark void in their chest. 

 Project: Structures {2021}

During my 300 level, I presented a series of video works entitled Structures. Through media exploration in moving image and line animation, these works were to show how human relationships and life pathways can be represented metaphorically by trees - the imagery was sourced from bare inverted tree branches and animated lines. These videos were black and white, playing with positive and negative space. Visually, the simplified colour palette acted as a foundation to explore my ideas. In a minimalist video of inverted footage, the lines were seen as dark intimate network of structures.

Project: Human Connection {2020}

My 200 level project investigated the idea of 'Human Connection' from a distance. This project was heavily inspired by online friendships that were formed and maintained at a distance. The covid19 pandemic and quarantine had affected my project in more ways than one. However, the social lockdown allowed the world and local people to communicate from a distance, which brought that experience of the long distance and digital forms of communication to everyone at once. 

In the form of a video series, I felt that I was able to bring in that 'digital' component. In a symbolic way, I was able to show the perspective in the form of the natural environment which connects the countries and people globally. The forms that connect us in the world can also physically distance us – in a form of barriers. But these barriers, e.g. the ocean and trees, unify us.  

However I wanted to combine the act of communication in reference to water as an 'ocean of words' - communication and relationships come in a series of waves of back and forth and at a fluctuated pace. The video was more of an emotional, soothing experience with the audio from my American friend - as if her voice is the breath of the sea, an intermediate, a point of equilibrium.  

Project: Atea {2019}  

Temporary vs. Permanent structures

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