Spatial Dialogues | teamLab

When people approach the flowers, they scatter and die. When they approach the sand, the falling sand breaks up.
Since ancient times people have looked at falling sand to understand the concept of short periods of time, and they have seen the changes in the flowers that bloom to feel the passage of longer periods of time. The time of the falling sand, the repeated life and death of the flowers, and the time of people's bodies - all these different times intersect and overlap.
The space of the artwork is created with what teamLab refers to as Ultrasubjective Space. In contrast to spaces that are created through, or in other words cut out by, lenses and perspective, Ultrasubjective Space does not fix the viewer’s viewpoint and in turn frees the body. The wall that the flowers are seen on does not become a boundary between the viewer and the artwork, and the artwork space is continuous with the space of the viewer’s body.

世界上所有的海洋是连在一起的，所以所有的波浪也是互相串联的。

东亚古典艺术中的波浪往往是由成组的线条来表现的。一系列线条组成的波浪提醒着我们，它们是流动的一部分。 而在这些线条之中，波浪就仿佛是活物一般，能让人感受到生命。

事实上，当波浪翻涌而起时，你会感觉到一股强烈的生命气息，仿佛生命在绽放出花朵，每一朵波浪里似乎都蕴藏着生命。但波浪崩落消失时，又如花朵凋零般短暂易逝，同时你会注意到原来它们都是海洋的一部分。而那片海与所有的海洋相连，也就是说，世界上所有的波浪也都是相连的。
波浪之所以像生命，是因为生命本就像是强大的、翻涌而起的波浪。 生命源起于所有连在一起的海洋，是一种从未间断、持续翻涌而起的奇迹般的现象。

我们透过无数水粒子的连续体来表现波浪，计算粒子之间的相互作用，以模拟波型来建构水在三次元空间下的动作。我们还利用水粒子动作来描绘线条，在三次元空间的波浪表层上描绘线条。这些被立体地描绘出的线条集合体，基于teamLab所发想的「超主观空间」理论切割而来，不同于由镜头或透视法切割而来的空间，观赏者的视角不会被固定，身体也会变得自由。映出花朵的墙壁不会成为我们与作品的界线，花朵的作品空间与人们身体所在的空间是连续的。

The contours of life’s existence are not the surface boundary of the body, but something ambiguous that includes the environment that is continuous with it.
As long as people live, they dissipate energy and affect the environment, such as the flow of air.
In this artwork, the existence of a person is depicted through the energy dissipated by people into the world for as long as they live.

Being consists of the mind, the body, and the environment that is continuous with them.

Objects like stones and man-made creations so far have maintained a stable structure on their own. But life is different. Whereas a stone can continue to exist in a closed box, sealed off from the outside world, life would cease to exist.

Life is like a vortex created in the ocean. A vortex forms and exists in a flow of matter, and the boundaries of its existence are ambiguous.  

Although a vortex is steady, it is constantly moving and swelling like a powerful life-form. The vortex cannot maintain a stable structure on its own; rather, it is created and sustained by water that continuously flows inwards and outwards.

The same is true of life. It consumes external matter and energy as food and discharges it, sustaining its ordered structure as the energy dissipates. In other words, life does not exist by itself. It is the environment that is continuous with it that maintains the structure of life.

Life is a miraculous phenomenon that emerges from a flow in an open world. Like an ocean vortex, it is an existence with ambiguous boundaries in an infinite continuity.

To be alive is to be inseparable from the world, constantly dissipating energy into it.