DIVE an interactive video installation DIVE explodes a story into three-dimensional space. The audience enters the story physically and experiences it, like ALICE IN WONDERLAND, through shifting time and perspectives. In a new kind of narrative, the sculptural environment embodies the protagonist’s mind and invites the audience inside to explore the story through a variety of perceptual lenses. DIVE follows a woman as she returns to the ruins of the building where she once lived. She “dives" into her memories and follows the pathways of her mind to re-enact scenes from her past. Dancer/choreographer Paula Josa-Jones and video artist Ellen Sebring created a 14-minute video depicting the central character in all of her guises. Josa-Jones appears as a hopeful young woman, a wild socialite and a runaway woman hovering in the trees. As a magician-like card player, she conjures her own journey. Sebring collaged the material, which flows, like the central image of water, into a stream of consciousness narrative as the woman drifts deeper into her sub-personalities. The DIVE video plays like a tiny "navel" at the core of the installation. The viewer looks down into it like a gem. Its immersive spirit emanates out into softly lit layered fabric passageways. The audience is invited to step into the woman’s mind and travel its pathways from character to character. In one corner, they meet the young bride; in another, they come upon the wild woman. It is as if the video has been pulled apart and her memories have become real episodes. Viewers walk through time to reach earlier phases of her life. Time becomes non-linear as the audience, depending upon where they are in the installation, experiences the woman at different times of her life. The audience reconstructs her story by their own movement through it. The installation blows the video up in scale, as if sweeping a magnifying glass across it. Perspectives shift, like in Alice in Wonderland, where Alice grows or shrinks when she eats cake. The audience feels small when the projected video is vast, and large when the video is small. Spatial transformations contribute to DIVE’s overall goal of creating a physiological experience of story.