UNREAL

We were shooting a pilot this week for our new arts TV series, ‘Life’. We have built a virtual set and are working with the so called ‘real’ and the ‘unreal’ in the powerful gaming and virtual production software, Unreal Engine, to create the show.

After filming I have been thinking a lot about the ‘real’ and the ‘unreal’.

Thinking about how we all create a never-ending series of virtual reality experiences in virtual stages throughout our virtual ‘life’.

How all our lives are really like one long 'real' and 'unreal' TV series as we write our own scripts, design our own sets and invite others to perform with us, merging our stages, stories and drama.

The 'real' and 'unreal' in our words, our thoughts and our deeds.

How throughout the stages of our 'real' and 'unreal' life, we go from one belief to another belief to another. Each belief creating our world at that moment in time but then it’s gone. How we then need to find another one and another one and another one.

How our beliefs, our thoughts are as ungraspable as a virtual set created in a virtual world. Though it all looks real, nothing can really be grasped, not really. Not in the 'real' or 'unreal' world.

How when we relax into the virtual reality of ‘Life’... How amazing, how diverse, how rich, how generous, how fecund and how epic our lives truly are.

#gaming #epic #life