writing
     With words that don't exist

A presence stands on a hill by the sea. She tries to sing, tries to speak, but she can only hold her story like a memory in her body and look out at the ocean. She wonders what to do when writing it feels like singing a song with words that don’t exist.

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With words that don’t exist has been my attempt to access and articulate this story through imaginative writing spaces in Virtual Reality. In creating and moving through virtual spaces for writing and editing, I investigate how VR’s affordances for embodied and spatial engagement support, or disrupt, the kind of writing—at once physical and virtual, archival and performative—demanded by this story by the sea. Importantly, the ‘outcome’ of With words is not a VR rendering of a story. Rather, the work subverts expected uses of such technologies and reimagines VR as a space for developing narratives that maybe can’t be told, only held.

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       read more in the digital review: issue 01 (2021)​

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