Six worlds at the edges
of familiar experience.
What happens when a world is composed to change how it feels to be in one?
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Ontik is an ongoing series of immersive environments built from light, movement and sound. Each portal explores a different atmosphere: attraction, passage, infinity, ascent, vastness or an encounter with something unfamiliar.
The work grows out of my investigation of mystical experience and ontological shifts—moments when the familiar relationship between self and world changes. Here, those questions take the form of spaces to inhabit.
The environments invite exploration. Their meaning depends, in part, on what happens between the work and the person entering it.
Enter through Ontik’s live menu to choose an environment.
Luminous forms drawn toward a centre in the depths of space.
A passage between emergence and disappearance.
A threshold that keeps receding.
Streams of luminous water; a meditation in dialogue with Bill Viola.
Movement through an immense crimson domain.
Organic forms and the presence of an unfamiliar intelligence.
My research asks what unusual experiences might disclose about consciousness and reality. Ontik brings that inquiry into an artistic process: composing conditions of perception through colour, scale, motion and sound.
The relationship is exploratory. An immersive artwork can open a question without settling the philosophical argument behind it.
Read Ontological ShiftsOntik uses WebXR, Three.js and custom GLSL shaders. Code becomes a medium for spatial rhythms, luminous structures and changing fields of perception.
For installation possibilities, screenings or conversations around the work, contact hello@monkadelic.me.
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