A Thousand Wind that Blow 化为千风

A Thousand Wind that Blow is a motion-based interactive animation experience. It aimed at helping people capture grief and release it through body motion.

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Abstract

“The Thousand Winds that Blow” is a motion-based interactive experience that visualizes grief and involves body motion to help users process this emotion. The title comes from the poem "Do not stand by my grave and weep" by Clare Harner in 1934, a bereavement poem.

Grief is not like death, it’s an emotion only for the living. It’s a closed book, a drop of tear, a wound and evidence of having loved someone or something. In the digital age, grief also has taken a digital form. In traditional methods of grieving we can tear, throw or dump physical objects for emotional release, but digital grief does not share such privilege. Thus, this project aimed to fill this gap. The project contains multiple scenes where users interact through body motion. The scenes will loop around themselves with animated transitions, symbolizing that grief is an ongoing process.

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