teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in an Eternal Sea | teamLab

The seasons co-exist and change gradually across the installation space.
Flowers blossom according to the seasons, and the places where they grow gradually change.

The flowers bud, grow, and blossom before they begin to wither and their petals eventually scatter, repeating the cycle of life and death in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom more abundantly than usual, but if people touch or step on the flowers, they shed their petals, wither, and die all at once. Sometimes the flowers cross the boundaries of other works and bloom in other spaces, but scatter or die due to the influence of other works.

The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork, so previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.

In spring in the Kunisaki Peninsula, there are many cherry blossoms in the mountains and canola blossoms at their base. A visit to this region led teamLab to wonder how much of these flowers were planted by people and how much of them were native to the environment. It was a place of great serenity and contentment. The expansive body of flowers is an ecosystem influenced by human intervention, and the boundary between the work of nature and the work of humans is unclear. Rather than nature and humans being in conflict, a healthy ecosystem is one that includes people. In the past, people understood that they could not grasp nature in its entirety, and that it is not possible to control nature. People lived more closely aligned to the rule of nature, which perhaps created a comfortable natural environment. We believe that these valleys hold faint traces of this premodern relationship with nature that once existed, and we hope to explore a form of human intervention based on the premise that nature cannot be controlled.

꽃이 끝없이 피고 지며, 탄생과 죽음을 영원히 거듭한다.

현실의 시간의 흐름에 따라 피어나는 꽃들이 계절에 맞춰 하루하루 모습을 바꾸어 간다. 작품 속 세상은, 설치된 장소에 해가 뜨면 밝아지고,, 해가 지면 따라서 어두워진다.
감상자가 존재하는 현실의 시간, 도시의 시간, 꽃의 탄생과 죽음이 반복되는 시간, 각각의 다른 시간이 신체, 도시, 그리고 작품 세계에 이어져 교차하고 중첩된다. 작품 공간에 서로 다른 시공이 겹쳐진다.
작품은 컴퓨터 프로그램에 의해 실시간으로 그려져 간다. 사전에 기록된 영상을 재생하는 방식이 아니며 이전의 상태가 되풀이되는 경우도 없다. 사람들의 움직임의 영향을 받아들여 끝없이 변화해 간다. 지금 이 순간의 장면은 두 번 다시 볼 수 없다.