Present is Purgatory
Medium: Website / Interactive Media Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Blender, Figma, Vscode (HTML, CSS, JS)
Present is Purgatory, is an interactive 3D digital space that visualizes the present as a liminal dimension between the past and the future. This piece explores the emotional and philosophical tension of being “stuck in time,” grappling with the unalterable nature of the past and the uncertainty of the future.
To further explore the relationship between past, present, and future: I combined analog methods with digital ones. The elements were cut out from old magazines or sourced from the public source images and collaged on a piece of paper which was then modified digitally in Adobe Photoshop. Afterwards, the collage elements were extracted into separate 2D layers which were formatted in Blender and modified in the Three.js editor and finally put into web format through HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
If the past is a ghost that we can’t reach or alter, the future a vision that oscillates between dream & nightmare, the present could be thought of as an intermediary state (a temporal purgatory). Though the name might pass off as negative, enough time in this 3d space and we may realize that the present is where we are meant to be.
//a preview of the "landing page", features include center gif, moving text, spotify code for matching playlist that I curated!
// a screen capture of the final product
// an older work, (mix of digital & analog collage made in Adobe Photoshop), that I revised for this project
// cutting out elements of the revised work, using photoshop, to be repurposed as "layers" in the 3D space
// assempling the 2D layers exported from photoshop into Blender and arranging them in 3D space
// surrounding scene in uv sphere with space texture and incorporating animated elements.
// texturizing planes with scancs of my handwritten notes which I animated with blender cloth simulation
// synthesizing elements in vscode through html, css, and (mostly) javascript
// incorporated sound and interactive elements for final product
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