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Life is an order of energy.
In this artwork space, like life, we created an order of energy. In doing so, a giant white mass is born, and emerges afloat.

The sculpture, a giant white mass, neither sinks down to the floor nor reaches the ceiling, floating as though transcending the concept of mass. The contour of this floating sculpture’s existence is ambiguous, becoming smaller when it tears and growing larger when the masses come together. People can enter this sculpture with their entire body, and even if the sculpture breaks, it naturally repairs itself like a living thing. But, as with living things, when the sculpture is destroyed beyond what it can repair, it cannot mend itself, and collapses. Even if people try to move or push this floating sculpture, they cannot do so. If they stir up the wind, the sculpture will scatter.

What is life in biological terms? Viruses, for example, are considered to exist somewhere between living and inanimate because they do not have cells, the smallest unit of biological life, nor do they have the ability to self-reproduce. What separates the living from the inanimate cannot be defined biologically to this day.

Objects like stones and man-made creations maintain a stable structure on their own. A stone can continue to exist in a closed box, sealed off from the outside world, but life cannot sustain its existence in such a box because it is not an independent structure that can exist on its own.

Life is like a vortex created in the ocean. 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 vortex is an existence within the flow, and its contour is ambiguous.

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. Life exists within the flow of matter and energy, and its contour, like a vortex, is ambiguous.
Life is a miraculous phenomenon that emerges in the flow of matter and energy, and its structure is the order of energy created by that flow.

In terms of material substance, the only things that exist in this space are ordinary soap, water, and air. The bubbles are soap bubbles.
Although life cannot be strictly defined with modern biology, everything that is structured upon cells, metabolizes, and self-reproduces, is conveniently labeled living things. In other words, all living things are composed of cells. All cells are surrounded by a cell membrane composed of a lipid bilayer with the hydrophilic part facing outwards and the hydrophobic part covered within the layers. Both the inside and outside of the enveloping membrane are liquid.
Soap bubbles are similarly enveloped by  lipid bilayer membranes, and the membranes of the bubbles that make up this sculpture are structurally identical to cell membranes. However, contrary to cells, the bilayer of the bubble membrane floats in and encloses air, so the hydrophobic part faces outwards, while the hydrophilic part is covered within the layers. In other words, if we consider cells to be pouch-shaped membranes in liquid, bubbles are pouch-shaped membranes in air.

The space is filled with soap bubbles to create a unique environment in which an order of energy is born. By doing so, an immense white mass emerges from this sea of bubbles that floats steadily in mid-air.
This sculpture is created from substances composed in the same ways as cells, the structuring units of life-forms, and the order of energy created from this unique environment.

1년간의 꽃들이 시간과 함께 변화하며 피고 지는 ‘생명의 우주’가 공간 속에 펼쳐진다.
누워서 혹은 앉아서 가만히 머물다 보면, 신체는 머지않아 부유를 시작해 이 세계와 하나가 되어갈 것이다.

꽃은 태어나 성장하고, 꽃봉오리가 되어 꽃을 피우고, 이윽고 꽃이 지면 마르고 죽어간다. 즉, 꽃은 탄생과 죽음을 영원히 이어나간다.
본 작품은 미리 만들어진 영상이 재생되는 것이 아닌, 컴퓨터 프로그램에 의해 실시간으로 끊임없이 그려진다. 지금 이 순간의 공간은 두 번 다시 볼 수 없다.

The seasons change gradually across the installation space.
A seasonal year of flowers blossom according to the changing seasons, and the place where they grow gradually moves.

The flowers bud, grow, and blossom before their petals begin to wither and eventually fade away. The cycle of growth and decay repeats itself in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom more abundantly. If viewers touch or step on the flowers, they shed their petals, wither, and die all at once.

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: 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. This experience of nature caused teamLab to wonder how many of these flowers were planted by people and how many were native to the environment. It is a place of great serenity and contentment, but 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 rules of nature that 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.

현실 세계와 같은 시간의 흐름 속에서 1년 동안 피어나는 꽃들이 변해간다.꽃들은 탄생과 죽음, 증식과 사멸을 반복해가면서, 계절과 함께 변해간다.사람들이 꽃을 만지면, 그 꽃은꺾이며 시들어 죽고만다. 타 작품의 영향을 받아, 타 작품에 의해서도 꽃은 꺾여 죽는다.
작품 세계는 teamLab이 생각하는 ‘Ultrasubjective Space’에 의해 평면화 하고 있기 때문에, 렌즈나 관점에 의한 평면화와는 다르게, 감상자는 시점이 고정하지 않아도 되고, 신체가 자유롭고 활발해 진다. 그리고 작품 세계가 그려지는 벽은, 사람들과 작품과의 경계면이 아니며, 꽃은 벽의 경계면을 애매하게 하고, 작품 세계는 사람들의 신체가 있는 공간과 이어진다.

Autonomous abstraction.
The dots of light blink and change color in cycles unique to each dot. A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs between dots that are close to each other, and their hues and the rhythm at which they blink gradually synchronize. When people touch them, the rhythm of the blinking hues change and are randomized, but the dots close to each other once again cause a spontaneous order phenomenon between them.
The dots of lights emit a tone each time they blink. The tones can be heard continuously throughout the space; what sounds like music is solely created by the continuous tones produced by the blinking lights.

A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs when different rhythms influence each other and synchronize. Examples include when the pendulums of two clocks gradually begin to swing together; when many fireflies gather in one tree and all start blinking at the same time, creating a larger light as a whole; or when the cells that make up the heart synchronize and tremble simultaneously to create the pulse of the heart. This can be seen in various systems, from physical phenomena, neurophysiology, to ecosystems. Although the individual parts do not have the ability to observe the whole, the phenomenon of self-organization is the creation of an ordered and larger structure, resulting from the autonomous behavior of each individual part influencing each other. This phenomenon is also known as spontaneous order.

It is believed that entropy (a measurement of the lack of order in a system) in the universe will steadily increase (the law of increasing entropy) and that entities with form eventually collapse. Despite that, it is a wonder that the sun was created and the planets were born, that life was formed and societies exist. However, the reason why the universe, life, nature, and society continue to be maintained in spite of this may be because order is continuously formed on its own through the shared phenomenon of self-organization in the midst of disorder. In other words, the universe and our own existence are a continuous order created by the same phenomenon.

나 자신과 바깥 환경은 둘이 아니다(不二). 서로 가르고 나눌 수 없다는 가르침이 있다. 분리의 반대말은 통합이 아니다. 둘로 보이는 것이 실은 처음부터 하나였음을 깨닫는 일로부터, 우리는 분리를 벗어난다. 오늘날 우리에게 ‘살아 있는’ 일은 이렇게 형상화되어야 하지 않을까.

한자 ‘生(날 생)’을 ‘공서(空書)’로 입체적으로 써 나간다. ‘생(生)’은 삶이자 살아 있음을 뜻한다. ‘공서’란 teamLab이 초기부터 계속해 오는 작업 방식으로, 빈 허공에 쓰는 붓글씨다. 먹물을 머금은 붓의 궤적이 지닌 깊이와 속도, 힘의 강약 등을 새롭게 해석해 공간 속에 입체로서 재구축하고, teamLab의 ‘초주관 공간’ 논리 구조에 따라 다시 평면화한다. 결과적으로 붓글씨가 평면과 입체 사이를 끊임없이 오간다.

렌즈나 원근법으로 잘라낸 작품 공간은 디스플레이 면이 향하는 쪽에 작품 공간이 나타난다. 즉 디스플레이 면이 경계선이 되어 감상자가 존재하는 공간과 작품 공간은 분단된다. 하지만 초주관 공간의 특징 중 하나로, 이 작품 공간은 디스플레이 면이 경계가 되지 않는다. 이 작품 공간은 디스플레이 면을 넘어서 감상자가 존재하는 공간까지 입체적으로 존재하는 것처럼 인지된다. 작품 공간은 감상자의 신체가 있는 공간에 연속하여 이어진다.

Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Spheres are spheres that bounce when people step on them. The spheres rotate at high speed, but when people approach them, they stop rotating and become easier to step on.
When people bounce on the spheres, the spheres shine. If they bounce on spheres of the same color in succession, the spheres will pop and particles of light spread out into the space. If people bounce on more spheres of the same color in succession, caterpillars are born. 
The caterpillars move out of the room towards the Balance Stepping Stones in a Flutter of Butterflies space. They make their way through the Balance Stepping Stones in the Invisible World, where if people step on the Balance Stepping Stones, the caterpillars nearby are blown away.

Balance Stepping Stones are stepping stones that wobble in various ways when people step on them.

When people step on the Balance Stepping Stones, butterflies are born and they flutter around the space. When people touch the butterflies, they die.
The flutter of butterflies changes with the seasons, with the flow of time in the real world.

Multi Jumping is a flexible surface that people can jump on, and sink or jump higher than usual. 
When you stand on Multi Jumping, the surface beneath your feet sinks, creating warps in space and time. This distortion attracts stardust from the universe and births new stars. If you jump on top of a star, it begins to move, and if you chase the star and continue to jump on a it, the star will grow. met to explode and the star to grow much bigger. When the life of the star ends, it returns to stardust and becomes the building blocks of new stars.A gigantic and heavy star will eventually become a black hole that swallows up all the surrounding stars and stardust.

‘둥실둥실 지형’은 매우 부드러운 입체적인 언덕입니다. 다양한 빛의 방울이 지형에 따라 높은 곳에서 낮은 곳으로 흘러가고 지층의 무늬를 그리듯 겹겹이 쌓여갑니다.사람이 있는 장소는 가라앉기 때문에 빛의 방울은 가라앉은 곳에 보입니다. 사람이 걸으면 방울은 튀고 섞여 지층의 모양이 변화합니다.
빛의 방울은 현실의 시간의 흐름 속에서 계절에 따라 변화해갑니다.

All the various fish drawn by everyone swim around in this ocean.

Color in a fish on the paper provided and see the picture you have colored come to life, swimming out into the ocean in front of you together with fish drawn by other people. If you touch the fish, they will swim away. You can also feed the fish by touching the food bags.

Sometimes, the fish leave the room, transcend the boundaries between artworks, and begin to swim through the museum.

The tuna transcend the physical boundaries of the museum and swim out into the Sketch Ocean or Sketch Aquarium: Connected World artworks in other exhibitions. Similarly, tuna drawn in other exhibitions may appear and swim into the Sketch Ocean right in front of you.

이 벽은 꼬마 요정들이 살고 있는 음악이 흐르는 벽이다.
벽에 버섯과 양 우리, 기다란 얼음 막대기 모양의 스탬프를 붙이면 꼬마 요정들이 알아채고 물건 위로 뛰어오른다.벽에 붙은 스탬프의 종류에 따라 꼬마 요정들이 미끄러지거나, 점프하거나, 기어오른다. 스탬프를 떼어내면 꼬마 요정들이 사는 세계에 그 잔상이 남는다. 다양한 종류의 스탬프를 붙여나가면 꼬마 요정들이 무척 기뻐하며 뛰어다닌다.
벽 위에서는 스마일 씨앗이 떨어진다. 스마일 씨앗이 스탬프에 떨어지면 종류에 따라 다양한 소리를 낸다. 또한 벽에 붙은 스탬프의 높이에 따라 음의 높낮이도 변화한다. 다양한 스탬프를 이곳저곳에 붙이면 벽으로부터 음악이 흐르기 시작한다. 

When a cup of tea is poured, it begins to glow with its own unique rhythm and produces a tone. A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs between the teas close by as they influence each other, gradually syncing the rhythms of light and color of the teas.When you lift the tea to drink it, it shines brightly and the suns of the artwork Massless Suns and Dark Spheres resonate one after the other in response. As you finish the tea, the artwork enters your body and stops influencing its surroundings.
The light color of the tea is Dynamic Equilibrium Color, a new color concept by teamLab. When a person sees the tea in the cup from a distance, taking in its entirety, the color of the light does not appear to change; but when they look closely, observing the miniscule, the color of the light is actually continuously changing, and creating a new sense of time.
A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs when different rhythms influence each other and become aligned. Examples include when the pendulums of two clocks gradually begin to swing together, when many fireflies gather in one tree and all start flashing at the same time, creating a larger light phenomenon, or when the cells that make up the heart synchronize and tremble simultaneously to create the beating of the heart. The phenomenon of self-organization is the creation of a large structure with order resulting from the autonomous behavior of each individual, even though each individual does not have the ability to observe the whole. This can also be called a self-organization phenomenon.
It is believed that entropy (a measurement of the lack of order in a system) in the universe will steadily increase (the law of increasing entropy) and that entities with form eventually collapse. However, the reason why the universe, life, nature, and society are able to exist in spite of this may be because order is born by itself through the common phenomenon of self-organization in the midst of disorder. In other words, the universe and our own existence are a continuous order created by the same phenomenon.

*Location: Inside Sketch FactoryWe 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.