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連在一起的，所以所有的波浪也是互相串聯的。

東亞古典藝術中的波浪往往是由成組的線條來表現的。一系列線條組成的波浪提醒著我們，它們是流動的一部分。 而在這些線條之中，波浪就彷彿是活物一般，能讓人感受到生命。

事實上，當波浪翻湧而起時，你會感覺到一股強烈的生命氣息，彷彿生命在綻放出花朵，每一朵波浪裡似乎都蘊藏著生命。但波浪崩落消失時，又如花朵凋零般短暫易逝，同時你會注意到原來它們都是海洋的一部分。而那片海與所有的海洋相連，也就是說，世界上所有的波浪也都是相連的。
波浪之所以像生命，是因為生命本就像是強大的、翻湧而起的波浪。 生命源起於所有連在一起的海洋，是一種從未間斷、持續翻湧而起的奇跡般的現象。

我們透過無數水粒子的連續體來表現波浪，計算粒子之間的相互作用，以模擬波型來建構水在三次元空間下的動作。我們還利用水粒子動作來描繪線條，在三次元空間的波浪表層上描繪線條。這些被立體地描繪出的線條集合體，基於teamLab所發想的「超主觀空間」理論切割而來，不同於由鏡頭或透視法切割而來的空間，觀賞者的視角不會被固定，身體也會變得自由。映出花朵的牆壁不會成為我們與作品的界線，花朵的作品空間與人們身體所在的空間是連續的。

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.