Obsession launched on 14 September 2026 with a night at Lightbox NYC, a room in Midtown Manhattan whose four walls are one 360° projection surface. The venue piece came to me with a day to go: a loop of about a minute for the four walls, delivered as four files cut to the venue's wall templates, due the next afternoon. The video above puts the finished walls back into a model of the room.

One world at a time

The loop is the fold from the site, taken off the screen and wrapped round the room. You stand inside the arena, the crowd twinkling on every wall, the drone on its lap overhead. Then the room dissolves into a field of particles, the eclipse closes onto the primary wall with the next world already forming inside its disc, opens again, and the studio draws itself on around you, line by line. Twenty seconds later the same pass takes you to the bedroom, and once more back to the arena, so it never ends.

Props glow one at a time while the rest stays dim, which does the work of a spotlight without one. Nothing hurtles and nothing is written on the walls. It plays behind people holding a drink, so every move is slow enough to follow from anywhere in the room.

Four walls from one camera

The four files are a box render: one camera at the centre of the room, four views at ninety degrees, the venue's own proportions setting the fields of view, so the picture bends at the corners exactly where the walls do. The eclipse is the site's own shader with its screen coordinate swapped for a projection of each pixel's direction in the room, which keeps the disc a true circle from the centre and lets the corona run round the corners.