Strangeways
A passage through Chris Bianchi's drawings. Corridors turn into gardens. Sketches become rooms you can walk.
First shown as Bonkerz Gardens
Line and smear, used as architecture.
Dale P. Deacon built the world with Alex Bosman for Shtik XR, from Chris Bianchi's drawings.
It was in competition at Venice Immersive 2024, at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, and a Raindance Immersive Best Art World nominee. In 2025 a grant paid for a port to HTC Viverse, so the same drawings open in a browser.
- VRChat
- More than 85,000 visits, and nearly 10,000 favourites. Counted on vrcw.net in October 2026.
- Venice
- In competition at Venice Immersive 2024.
- Raindance
- Best Art World nominee, Raindance Immersive.
- Viverse
- Web version, 2025, from an HTC Viverse grant.
Drawings from the world
The question it had to answer
Can a drawing be a place?
The world does not start from a polygon kit. Line, smear, and the logic of a dream are the rooms.
Venice is the curatorial test. Viverse is the other one. The work had to leave VRChat without losing the hand that drew it.
Credits
- World
- Dale P. Deacon
- Alex Bosman
- Jacob Mwesigwa
- Drawings
- Chris Bianchi
- For
- Shtik XR
- Director and sound
- Adam Lieber
- Avatars
- Wondering Chew
- Words
- Jamie D. Huxley
- Photographs
- HAL Sorta
- Photogrammetry
- Azad Balabanian
Visit
The VRChat world and the Viverse port are both still the way in.
To talk to Worldbuild about the world, write to Dale.