Immersive Art
-The durational structure of HOME mirrors ceremonial timescales, giving participants space to move from cognitive processing into somatic knowing. AR layers, volumetric projections, and spatially mapped soundscapes create environments where visitors encounter their own stories reflected back—not as trauma, but as source.
@@ -686,10 +686,10 @@Each sensory chamber is designed using neuroaesthetic research to activate specific neurological responses: lowering cortisol, stimulating oxytocin and dopamine pathways, inviting the body back into safety. Visitors don’t just observe—they participate through story and immersion. The experiences trigger the parts of the brain linked to joy, happiness, and euphoria via film, oral storytelling, sound frequency, bass vibrations, an AI mirror that reflects the younger version of self, interactive art revolving around touch, cinemagraphs, and scent.
“Black joy is a form of its own resistance to reclaim our humanity in the face of the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery across the diaspora and continental Africa.”
+“How can we create both an externalized nervous system through design technology and an internalized nervous regulator through story and somatic sensory experiencing—linking the knowledge and ancient tech that has always been there to the technology of today?”
Drawing from Alice Walker’s radical tenderness and Audre Lorde’s framing of self-care as political resistance, this project destigmatizes play, rest, and joy for people who may be in survival mode. How can we create both an externalized nervous system through design technology and an internalized nervous regulator through story and somatic sensory experiencing—linking the knowledge and ancient tech that has always been there to the technology of today?
+Drawing from Alice Walker’s radical tenderness and Audre Lorde’s framing of self-care as political resistance, this project destigmatizes play, rest, and joy for people who may be in survival mode.
Built inside a mobile 40ft shipping container on wheels, HOME travels directly to working-class neighborhoods across the United States, the Black diaspora, and continental Africa, engaging with different artists in each community. Each experience has its own separate space and is linked to a story, creating an interconnected larger narrative—layers revealed like a Russian doll across different mediums.