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Through the artwork, Matter is Void, teamLab explores the notion of ownership.

This is an NFT artwork. There is only one NFT of this work, but it does not make it exclusive. Anyone and any number of people can download and own the artwork itself. In other words, whether or not someone owns the NFT of the work, the downloaded artworks cannot be distinguished from each other and they are all authentic.
The artwork displays the words chosen by teamLab, “Matter is Void”. Only the NFT owner can modify these words, and those same words will be reflected in all of the artworks downloaded by people around the world.
Depending on the words chosen by the owner of the NFT, the value of the artwork will change. If the words rewritten by the owner of the NFT possess value, more people may choose to own the artwork; and if the words do not possess value, people may no longer choose to display the work. There may be great value in rewriting the words of an artwork that many people look at, and conversely little value in rewriting the words of an artwork that is not displayed anywhere. Depending on the words chosen by the owner of the NFT, the value of the NFT will also likely change.
Once the original words are modified, even if the owner of the NFT decides to change them back to “Matter is Void”, the words will appear differently from the original; the initial “Matter is Void”, once modified, will not be able to be seen in its original state ever again.

The letters of the words in this artwork continuously revolve and rotate. Depending on the angle we may be able to recognize the letters as they continue to rotate, and there will be moments when we can recognize the meaning of the letters as a whole, but once again, they will become indiscernible and the words lose meaning. The way in which the words revolve is visually perceived as moving simultaneously clockwise and counterclockwise, and depending on which movement is consciously followed, the words can appear to be moving in either direction.

We do not perceive the world we see, we see the world we perceive.
Spheres made of accumulated rays of light.The light radiates from the center in infinite fine rays, creating its spherical shape. The light source remains motionless, yet the countless lines emitting from it wriggle continuously.
The spheres have no surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary between the artwork and the body is ambiguous. When you try to touch a sphere, your hand goes into the sphere as it does not have a physical boundary. 
What is this sphere? Why do the rays of lines wriggle?Our world is within us.
And if we perceive these spheres made of accumulated lines, the world we perceive will expand, and we may see the spheres of accumulated lines in our daily lives. As the world you perceive changes, the way you see the world goes on to change.

Life Survives by the Power of Life was released in 2011, the year of the Great East Japan Earthquake, where an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant accident overlapped. We have continued to create this artwork since its release in 2011, and over the course of 10 years, it has developed into a new artwork in which the transition of flowers and plants throughout a whole year repeats.
Self and the environment may appear to be two things, but in reality they are one and cannot be separated. The opposite of division may not be to integrate separate things, but to realize that what appears to be two were originally one.
The blessings and threats of nature, and the blessings and threats of civilization, are continuous and connected. There is no absolute malice anywhere, and yet not everything can be settled with just pleasant words. There is no easy solution, and our emotions are complex. Even so, we at teamLab want to affirm "Life" in all situations. Life is beautiful.
And life and death also appear to be two things, but in reality they cannot be separated. Within a long period of time, life has been supported by death, and death has supported new life, as life has been continuous.
In this artwork, the character "生" (sei), which means life and living, is drawn three-dimensionally in space. The brush strokes evoke traces of life, and on the brush strokes hundreds of flowers and plants are born, bloom, scatter, and change.
The artwork is drawn through Ultrasubjective Space, the picture plane does not become a boundary that separates the world of the artwork and the space where the viewer is. The artwork space transcends the picture plane and is continuous with the space in which the viewer's body exists. Viewpoints exist in infinite numbers, and no matter where you cut out the picture plane, the space is maintained. Because all of the details continue to change constantly, the viewer's gaze never stays fixed on a single point but moves around.
By moving their gaze, the viewer continually re-composes the world of the artwork as it changes over time, and builds pictorial space within themselves.