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Flowers bud, bloom, and in the course of time, wither and die. While eternally repeating the process of life and death, the places where they grow change gradually. When people stand still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom abundantly, but when people touch the flowers or walk around, they scatter and die all at once.The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it continues to be rendered in real time under the influence of people's behavior. 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 many of these flowers were planted by people and how many of them were native to the environment. It was a place overflowing with flowers, a place of great serenity and contentment. This nature is an ecosystem influenced by human activity, making us feel that nature and humanity are not in conflict. Perhaps a truly comforting nature is one that encompasses human presence as part of the ecosystem. Based on the premise that nature cannot be completely controlled, this artwork explores human activity that lives closely aligned to the rules of nature.
This artwork is an ecological pictorial space drawn through Ultrasubjective Space, which continues to be generated along with the body, others, time, and the environment. Viewers physically walk around and touch inside the world of the artwork, transforming it together with others in the same space.
This pictorial space differs from images or paintings flattened by a lens or single-point perspective. In such images or paintings, space appears behind the picture plane; the space that opens there and the space the viewer inhabits are split, and the picture plane becomes a boundary surface. The viewpoint is fixed at a single point, and bodily freedom is lost.On the other hand, a picture plane formed by Ultrasubjective Space is not a boundary that separates where we are from the world of the artwork. The world of the artwork is not outside a window; it appears as a single field that is continuously connected, without boundary, to the space in which the viewer’s body exists. Moreover, any position — front, back, left, or right — can become a viewpoint, so viewpoints exist in infinite number, and the viewer is physically free to move.Not bound to a single point, the viewer moves their body and lets their eyes roam freely, continually re-composing the world of the artwork as it changes over time, and building the pictorial space within themselves. In that moment, the artwork becomes a centerless, subjective, and embodied pictorial space in which the viewer walks and touches.
In this space, the boundaries between the viewer and the artwork become ambiguous. The artwork transforms simply by the presence of a body there, and the behavior of others also changes the world of the artwork. In conventional art, other people were often considered an obstacle that interferes with a one-on-one relationship with the artwork. However, here, the presence of others enriches and creates new changes in the artwork.
This artwork is an attempt to expand painting from a world on the other side of the screen into a space continuous with the body, others, time, and the environment. The artwork continues to be generated within the relationships among the behavior of people, the life and death of flowers, the passage of time, and the entire space. Here, the painting does not exist on its own as a completed entity; it relates to people's bodies and includes the presence of others, existing as an ecological field without boundaries.

상형문자를 만지면 그 글자가 가진 세계가 나타나 이야기를 시작합니다.
벽에 비춰진 상형문자(산, 나무, 새 등)를 만지면 그 글자가 가진 세계가 나타나고 새로운 이야기가 탄생합니다. 다른 체험자들이 불러낸 세계와 서로 영향을 주고받으며 이야기를 만들어 갑니다. 예를 들어 나무에는 새가 앉고, 양이 개의 존재를 눈치채면 깜짝 놀라 도망갑니다. 동물은 만질 수도 있습니다. 양에게 다가가면 춤을 추고, 말에게 다가가면 도망갑니다.

스케치 타운에서 그린 그림으로 세상에 단 하나뿐인 페이퍼 크래프트를 만들어보세요.
자동차나 빌딩 등 스케치 타운에서 그린 그림이 도면으로 만들어집니다. 도면을 조립하면 세상에 단 하나뿐인 페이퍼 크래프트가 완성됩니다.

굴리면 색과 소리가 변하는 라이트 볼로 연주하는 오케스트라입니다.
위에 있는 볼은 다른 공과 연동되어 있어, 만지면 주위에 있는 볼에게도 영향을 주어 공간 전체의 색이 변화합니다. 밑에 있는 볼을 굴리면 색이 변하고 소리가 납니다. 사람들은 몸을 움직이며 크고 작은 볼을 만지고 굴리면서, 함께 공간의 색을 바꿔가며 자유롭게 음악을 연주합니다.

나무블록을 배치해 기차와 자동차가 달리는 마을을 만들어보세요.
나무블록의 색깔에 따라 선로나 도로가 만들어집니다. 다양한 나무블록을 올려두면 기차와 자동차가 달리며 마을이 발전합니다. 같은 색깔의 나무블록을 많이 연결할수록 기차와 자동차도 진화합니다. 예를 들어 평범한 기차는 최신형 기차로 진화할 수 있습니다.