Mu Mirror is a modern form of an ancient technology: a web artwork that reveals a different way of seeing reality. For thousands of years, Zen has used koans, or riddles, to encode mental hacks that help people understand existence.

But most people don’t have the patience to sit on a cushion long enough for these koans to work – so I wanted to try and make a piece of digital art that might give them a shortcut. Built originally in VR with Unity, and ultimately for the web in p5.js.

Mu Mirror can be viewed on your own computer at mumirror.wyattroy.com