BRIDGING THE BLUE

Bridging the Blue is an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience utilising technology to access empathy and interrogate the efectiveness of diferent  modes of listening when attempting to be supportve of friends, family, or colleagues with a mental health challenge and offers subjective playback and validation to those who have been unwell. The viewer is invited into Arielle’s lived experience of severe clinical depression via an encounter with her,the artist, as a vologram (volumetric video captured from the real world) in a virtual world constructed from personal iconography derived from sensations, memories  and perceptions  of being unwell.