Flowers and People – Dark

teamLab, 2015, Interactive Digital Work, 3–8 channels, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Flowers and People – Dark

teamLab, 2015, Interactive Digital Work, 3–8 channels, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

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.

 

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. Depending on the proximity of the viewer to the work, the flowers shed their petals all at once, whither and die, or come to life and blossom once again.