My research is focused on incorporating my indigenous Yakut upbringings into the virtual space of videogames. In my culture, we still believe in shamanism and see the world as a complex multi-layered universe filled with spirits.

The image is a scene from one of my projects. I created the image in Blender and Unity to convey the feeling of when you're trying to remember something, to encapsulate a memory, but somehow details slip away from your mind. The scene is inspired by a playground in my home city Yakutsk and the aesthetics of point cloud data.

This image won Image of Research 2021 at Illinois State University

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