This concept aims to create a digital VR immersive experience that describes the sensation of observing one lived memory of just over 3 minutes long, not as our normal intuition, but in a higher dimension than our familiarized three-dimensional world. Therefore, this visual experiment hopes to demonstrate the visual perspective of seeing multiple moments in one single instant.
The original inspiration for this project came from early 20th-century cubism paintings. The early 20th-century pioneers often used a flat and static canvas to describe a dynamic movement in a three-dimensional space. To some point, the process is not very dissimilar to unwrapping a UV map from a computer 3D geometry. With all my respect to the avant-garde artists of their time, compared to cubism paintings, which paint all four dimensions (three dimensions of space plus one dimension of time) onto a two-dimensional canvas, I had always thought the use of motion pictures such as movie or animation is a better tool in representing a moving object in a finite time frame. Even better, 3D-modelled spaces with the ability to immerse the spectators into a VR environment could be the holy grail of what cubism artists were looking for a century ago.
This hybrid animation will reflect a piece of music titled Spiegel im Spiegel (lit.' mirror(s) in the mirror'), which was written for a single piano and violin, composed by Estonia composer Arvo Pärt in 1978. This is one of my favourite 20th-century classic instrumental music. I do think the minimal repeated rhythm shown in the music was inspired by the idea of fractal graphics, which usually come with endless repeated and self-similar patterns in all different scales, just as this four-dimensional VR animation portrays: passages of time in countless self-similar arrays.