Meet Me Halfway is a multi-channel VR video installation that explores the perception of time and space in virtual reality (VR) and the inability to return to the present from searching the inner world. I brought my new passion toward abstraction and my vivid childhood memories into virtual space, creating imaginary worlds that can be experienced both in virtual and in real life. The inner worlds I created in VR shifts between concrete and ephemeral, abstract and realistic, 3D to 2D, organic and inorganic with speed, forming temporary structures that constantly expand and collapse in time and space.

I look for ways to integrate diversity on our planet into everyday considerations, envisioning different possible futures that are utopian, inclusive and sustainable. In this work, I travel digitally, aimlessly drifting from one space to another, hurtling through the vast unknown to search the long-lost freedom. Dancing alone at the edge of the physical and virtual world, I often finds myself lost in time and space and unable to return to reality because the sensation of VR experience is so real that reality itself becomes merely the mode of a choice.

Meet Me Halfway also reflects the current unsettling situation which we are living in: the uncertainty, the isolation, the frustration of being confined in our own inner worlds, not being able to “meet” because the “halfway” is always in process and cannot be measured by time and space. This multi-channel video installation brings people into a virtual but real experience, presenting an alternative way to look beyond our digital screens.

VR and Video by Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Sound by Shane Turner