Resonance Lobby

"Folklore" is an interactive piece that allows you to explore Filipino and Mexican folklore through the experience of an oracle card reading in a virtual environment. Inspired by my own practice of tarot/oracle and my Filipino and Mexican culture, I wanted to create a personal divination tool that others with the same background felt connected to.

An image of the home city location from a Dungeon and Dragons game designed based on the tile map and description of buildings the party have visited, giving a complete visual representation of the location as a whole. 

A collection of my dreams, aspirations, and personality manifested into the form of one girl. AKA my project that will forever be in progress.

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This project focuses on how to use light and shadow effects, and black and white colors to build a visual gallery-like scene to show the audience the beauty hidden under the black and white filter.

This work is an exploration of recording dreams and nightmares that stood out in a group of friends. The aesthetic of the piece is a callback to recording on an old device such as a VHS tape. The visuals are renderings of prominent figures in our dreams/nightmares as they create a strong emotion when remembered. Some figures invoke positive emotion while others remind us of the dread experienced that night. The composition will range as each image is based on a different memory. The distortions are used to invoke the feeling of looking into another person’s memory where some pieces are missing and are filled in with fuzzy noise. 

Signs of the Times | Michelle Quan

One of a few character concepts created to express inclusion of cultures within multimedia. 

A world enticed and lured into the seductive qualities of the digital and the organic. The immersive qualities and the tempting visuals of a digital realm challenges my question on why the male energy is not commonly associated with nature in comparison to the feminine. Does the masculine dominate nature? Why does the femininity of nature not commonly coexist with human masculinity?

Colorful Idiom explores the emotions of love, death, and peace translated into colors and shapes. 

Viewers experience the personal journey and inspiration I have had with these emotions through 3D sculptures, video, and music.

Take a journey into a universe unknown. Explore the mind of someone who struggles with mental health issues as well as exploring their identity.

For hundreds of years, Filipinos have been stripped of their culture and true Identity. The Filipino ancestors have been enslaved, raped, beaten, killed, mocked, and ridiculed by colonizers to the point of forgetting our past. But one thing remains the Pinoy pride. For many years, Filipinos have researched, searched, and traveled to recollect our old tradition. “pagkatawo” roughly translates to birth/ identity in Bisayan, a Filipino dialect. This artwork pays homage to the early culture of tattooing, music, and storytelling. The story that is being shared is about the God,  Batala, creating the 7 moons and the dragon, Bakunawa, coming to eat them all.

For hundreds of years, Filipinos have been stripped of their culture and true Identity. The Filipino ancestors have been enslaved, raped, beaten, killed, mocked, and ridiculed by colonizers to the point of forgetting our past. But one thing remains the Pinoy pride. For many years, Filipinos have researched, searched, and traveled to recollect our old tradition. “pagkatawo” roughly translates to birth/ identity in Bisayan, a Filipino dialect. This artwork pays homage to the early culture of tattooing, music, and storytelling. The story that is being shared is about the God, Batala, creating the 7 moons and the dragon, Bakunawa, coming to eat them all.

Solitude is to raise awareness that our emotions are all over the place, and that’s okay. It is a reminder for those emotionally exhausted by the physical & virtual stresses in life.  It is to seclude ourselves with our emotions and simply feel - without any judgment or influence from the outside world.

Marija is an RPG game, where you play as a young girl who gives birth to a monstrous stillborn at your friend, Lorelei’s sleepover. Ashamed, and scared, with the help of your friends' stuffed animals, your goal is to discard it before anyone discovers what's happened. The game is alluding to the Chrisitan themes, as well as others like adolescence, puberty, sex, family violence, and substance abuse. The game is largely based on my own preadolescents, and the relationship I had with God, my friends, my family, and especially my body. 

“Daydream” is not about a narrative, but about a journey. It is a state of mind in which one's attention is focused on something other than the present. It's often associated with relaxation, but it can also be a place of escape or even a way to deal with overwhelming emotions.  In this emulation of daydreams with nature, the viewers can immerse themselves in a world that blurs out the boundary between fantasy and reality in a way that makes them feel calm and peaceful.

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