Traveling Through a Peach Garden

‘Traveling Through a Peach Garden’ is a CG-based open-world interactive work that draws on East Asian philosophies of nature to critically examine flawed structural systems. Rooted in a healing journey shaped by ancient Chinese medicine and spiritual practice, the project reimagines healing not as a cure, but as a reconstruction of perception, where players are invited to collect natural and spiritual elements while engaging in dialogues on cosmology, embodiment, and the politics of the body. Through speculative worldbuilding and references to East Asian metaphysics, the work interrogates modernist orders and normative constructs of the body and self, in dialogue with queer and decolonial perspectives. It situates itself within a lineage of digital art practices that use virtuality to critique systems of control, proposing instead a symbolic landscape where the body, knowledge, and environment are reentangled.