Shadow to Substance

Shadow to Substance takes oriental garden architecture as a referential model for spatial perception, reflecting on how subjective experience can be reconstructed in virtual space. It aims to redefine the limits of viewing, physicality, and spatial awareness; bringing discussion about bodily experiences under modern technology. The art of landscape gardening demonstrates how natural landscapes can be shaped into ideal “man-made nature.” Its unique architectural structures, such as crossing paths and looping mazes, also partake in subverting bodily sensations of reality. This lets the viewer’s perceptions project into a simulated territory. In the philosophy of oriental gardens space and time are woven together, providing a place between reality and imagination where our mind can wander and settle into, arousing a subtle awareness along the way.


Creative Team
Director, Editor | Tuan Mu
3D Animation | Dinoraisin
Sound Design | Wu Yi-Lin
English Translator | Ray He