Starting Where I Am: A Journey into Immersive Art.

I’m using this space to track a very personal but also shared journey—six months diving deep into immersive art, sensory experience, and the quieter ways we make sense of the world.

With support from an immersive art grant, I’ll be exploring how tools like VR, 360 video, sound, and movement can create spaces that feel safe, meaningful, and embodied—especially for those of us who often find language too rigid, or the world too loud.

This isn’t just about making art—it’s about listening. To the body, the breath, the nervous system. To memory, myth, and moments that feel just out of reach until we draw, paint, or build them.

I’ve started by identifying reading and research that will support the work—including Steven Pinker’s How the Mind Works (which I don’t always agree with, but that’s part of the fun). I’ve also signed up for Central Saint Martins’ short course Creative Wellbeing and Health through Artmaking, and I’m looking at further training in immersive video editing, and deeper research into VR, AR, and the neuroscience behind sensory experience.

I'm also reviewing and planning how to upgrade the tools I currently have—equipment, software, and studio space—to support the kind of immersive practice I want to develop.

I’ll be sharing snippets of process, reflections, stills from work in progress, and the theories and ideas that help me make sense of it all—Polyvagal Theory, Neuroaesthetics, maybe a bit of Pinker arguing in the background!

It’s all part of a conversation I’ve been having for years—with students, with places, with ancestors, with my own nervous system. This time, it's more immersive.