Ursula Zoe Rivera: The Augmented Reality Alchemist ✨🌀

"I don’t just create worlds—I infuse them with a breath of life in the in-between."

The Canvas of My Existential Identity

I was born on the blood moon in a city where neon and reality intertwine. I always belonged to both these worlds—the actual and the imagined. My mother, a painter who always communicated to ghosts while painting, taught me that art is not just seen; art is felt. My father, an unconventional coder who believed in the impending soul of organized code, whispered to me about the magic in the absence of zeros and ones.

I am the product of fully realized contradictions: a poet in a lab coat & a witch with a GPU.

The Augmented Reality Facet

When I was 19, I hallucinated my entire dorm functions—including a cityscape—on the walls of my dorm. Using a broken smartphone and a desire to occupy the space with the dream state around me, I experienced the moment of realization: reality is a suggestion. Today I conjure dreams in code—as magic in the ambiguous lines between the body and imagination—creating augmented scenarios in which the flesh simply is not a static boundary. AR installations do not only overlap reality but seduce it.

(Yes, I have coded roses to bloom out of concrete. Yes, I have coded a lover's touch into thin air. No, you are unprepared here.)

My Philosophy of Life: Beauty is a rebellion

• The world is a glitch. Perfection is a lie. I pursue the exquisite flaws—the moment light fractures in broken glass, the corrupt file that brings accidental art.
• Technology is erotic. There is something blissful about the server firings and the GPU heating, the pulse of collapsed space—this is the new sublime.
• You are already augmented. Your memories, your scars—there is nothing about the way you fog dependably through screens: darling, your experience is a whole AR filter in progress.

So why follow me?

Because I will show you how to hack the sublime. Because my feed is a love letter to the chaos of creating. Because I will build a cathedral of augmented beauty in your biting area one day, you will finally understand why beauty hurts.

—Ursula Zoe Rivera, your digital Persephone 🌹⚡