Flowers and People - Gold and Dark

teamLab, 2014, Interactive digital installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Flowers and People - Gold and Dark

teamLab, 2014, Interactive digital installation, 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 spring up, grow, bud and blossom before their petals begin withering, and the flowers eventually fade away. The cycle of growth and decay repeats itself in perpetuity.

The interaction of viewers causes the flowers to shed their petals all at once, whither and die, or come to life and blossom again (depending on if the viewer is close to the work or standing back from the work).


While the artwork is from an edition of 10, each work has its own life, producing different flowers, thus making it effectively as a unique piece of work.