Healthy, safe - people and place.

As I continue to think about how I depict healthy person to person interrelationships and the necessary borders, boundaries and peripheries in between; my mind turns to physical and virtual spaces and places. 

I am currently working on a research proposal entitled Shepherd’s shield: Beyond the panic button which explores how to embed safety into real and virtual worlds. It’s a HMD VR project and falls under my other occupation, as an TEL instructional designer. Although it could be argued that the practice-based visual arts research published in this journal informs how we go about in the world; Our relationships with each other deeply affects how we respond to the physical space around us. After all, it’s useful to know when one is purposefully being directed down a blind alley ;).. and understanding the intricacies of who benefits, is important. 

Anyway, the proposal is written and a literature review is underway but even so, making art, processing those deep instinctive responses to lived experience, remains an important and essential part of my creative practice (whether as artist or designer). 

And so, for now, I need to crank up my Unity Engine and set to work making an R&D test space in order to follow a research track that hopefully will eventually lead to the completion of my PhD, and along the way I may discover an holistic blueprint for a healthy, happy and fulfilling life. 

.. and hopefully help other along the way. 

Who knows…