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ISEA2026 DUBAI · CHARTING CONSTELLATIONS: DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIES

Worlds Within Worlds

Digital Constellations of the Invisible. An immersive projection installation and a series of luminous digital paintings that map the parallels between microscopic life and cosmic space.

PROJECT STATEMENT

My digital practice explores “worlds within worlds,” moving fluidly between the microscopic and the cosmic to question how we locate ourselves in an increasingly networked, data-saturated world. Working primarily with digital drawing and painting tools, I create forms that could be read as single-celled organisms under a microscope, satellite images of unfamiliar terrains, or constellations in deep space. These ambiguous cartographies invite viewers to ask: Where am I in this image? Am I looking inward or outward, at a cell or a galaxy, a map of the body or a map of the universe?

 

Fascinated by astronomy, biology, and quantum systems, I treat each work as a speculative digital geography — a place that is not fixed to one scale or one identity. The familiar textures of organic growth and cosmic dust become visual metaphors for how identity and community are shaped across physical and virtual space: layered, constantly in motion, and defined by relationships rather than borders.

 

By weaving together the language of cells, stars, and unknown terrains, my work proposes that place and identity in the digital age are not just about where we are on a map, but what (and who) we are in relation to. The images become constellations of possible selves and possible worlds, charting a poetic, speculative geography that extends from the body to the cosmos.

Worlds Within Worlds — full immersive projection (9:57)

Diatom Model — 3D sculpture from the immersive installation, built from my 2D paintings

GossamerWorm Model — 3D sculpture from the immersive installation, built from my 2D paintings

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WaterSpace Skybox

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Digital Paintings →

360° environment surrounding the viewer inside the installation

The 2D paintings the models grew from

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