Paris Yee

Walking into the Room

My media work from Fall 2020 has revolved around the idea of bringing the outside world to home. During this pandemic many of us do not have access to art galleries and museums. It is nearly impossible to make the audience feel like they’re in space from a video. I decided to play upon this feeling to create a space with a new meaning.  My project Walking into the Room is a 3D rendition depicting the rooms from the Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe. In this piece I touch upon the theme of Life more so creating a physical incarnation of life that the audience enters. The continuous flow of each room represents the ongoing, non stop continuation of age. The uncanniness of the room giveaway to the idea of life as a preset mold. This relates to today’s contemporary thoughts about the systematic feel of the everyday. I want the audience to feel uncomfortable in these rooms as this piece is a representation of something intangible and the inhabitability of age.