01 The red thread
Every world I build begins as a poem.
Luiza Awad's work moves in one direction: from the page into space. A verse becomes a VR temple. A myth becomes a garden you can walk through. A feeling about the internet becomes a building with likes stamped on its walls.
Two old technologies of perception sit side by side in it: ancestral Brazilian myth (Jacy the Moon, Guaracy the Sun, Yebá Bëló the Great Mother, Água the water) and immersive code. Both are used for the same purpose: to change how we see, then hand the seeing back to us.
Under every piece the same tides turn: moon and sun, love and pain, nature and machine, innocence and its loss. Nothing in her worlds is one thing only. Everything ebbs, and everything flows back.
"Storytelling and Poetry are often the basis for all my projects. By creating intimate digital spaces for more conscious forms of digital interactions, my work often discusses the contemporary issues surrounding the condition of Digitality."— Luiza Awad, Words That Broke Free
02 Worlds
Inhabitable
poems.
03 Words
Where it starts.
Move your cursor through the poem. The words drift like water.
Enter the written collections
04 Tides
05 Echoes
About me.
Since I was a child I've been fascinated by the mystery that is other people, and I often imagined teleporting into their minds. My art is an opportunity for connection. I believe we are all connected through the joys and sorrows of living.
"You have found powerful ways to take the writing off the page into the digital and performative realm."
"The myth you wrote… drew on classical storytelling and yet was fully contemporary."
"A huge amount of work done, impressive work… lots of rather difficult technical VR things implemented."