Exploring “The Garden” – a virtual dream in two chapters.

There’s something about bubbles. Their fragile curves. The way they catch light. Their invitation to float, drift, and disappear.

The Garden began as a dream of building soft spaces — not just to see, but to feel and move through. Born in the metaverse platform Mona and built using Blender and Unity, it evolved into a two-part virtual experience: part art gallery, part game, part stage, and entirely immersive.

🌌 Chapter 1: BUBBLES – Portal Hugs & Superjumps

This chapter was a spatial sketch of joy. Visitors were invited to jump from bubble to bubble, discovering vertical layers of the world: suspended pathways, sky altars, secret vistas above the clouds. Every bubble triggered a super-jump — a gentle mechanic that invited exploration, reflection, and perspective-shifting.

BUBBLES won a Mona Challenge for "Portal Hugs & Immersive Experiences" and still feels to me like an open poem. It was my first attempt to build a space where the architecture responded to lightness.

🌌 Chapter 2: AWARENESS – Kabbalah Mandalas & Sound Rituals

This second chapter turned inward. Co-created with another artist, AWARENESS became a sonic ritual and interactive puzzle. Visitors had to avoid roaming “bubble entities” and find safety within nine static mandala-bubbles. These mandalas — inspired by the Kabbalistic Tree of Life — unlocked the central portal, where a sound installation awaited.

Inside: a fractured voice, mine, reading a text on “constriction” originally recorded during a VFX tutorial — now reborn as a poetic echo of transformation.

Both chapters are technically unfinished, suspended like the bubbles they feature, after Mona’s shift away from metaverse development. But for me, they’re very much alive. In fact, they became the roots of Sonic Planet, my ongoing virtual universe where sound, identity, and nature merge in a dyson-sphere-shaped symphony.

If The Garden was the inhale, Sonic Planet is the exhale.

Thanks for drifting through these bubble worlds with me.

— Argent Gold

🌿 Explore the worlds of BUBBLES and AWARENESS in detail.