New Artworks Featuring Cherry Blossoms Unveiled at teamLab Botanical Garden Osaka
Crystals of Cherry Blossoms and Ethereal Cherry Blossoms, an artwork where blossoms shimmer like crystals emerging in the spring night will be on view until April 12. Floating Lamps on Oike Lake are Enveloped in Cherry Blossom Colors.
Art collective teamLab’s permanent nighttime open-air museum teamLab Botanical Garden Osaka at Nagai Botanical Garden features several cherry blossom artworks as the blossoms reach their peak bloom.
Crystals of Cherry Blossoms and Ethereal Cherry Blossoms is an artwork that shines only for a few days when the blossoms are in full bloom, appearing as if crystals are surfacing in the spring night. Their floating, sinking, and swaying outlines are an attempt to carve the very presence of life into space.
Crystals of Cherry Blossoms and Ethereal Cherry Blossoms
For only about ten days a year.
On spring nights, the cherry trees transcend their physical substance, and a phenomenon occurs.
Life is perhaps a tiny light that blooms in the darkness and returns to the darkness.
Crystals of Cherry Blossoms etch tiny sparkles of light into space, elevating the ephemeral moment of life into a transient eternity.
In the Ethereal Cherry Blossoms, the trees shed their material weight, appearing as entities drifting within the darkness. Their floating, sinking, and swaying outlines are an attempt to carve the very presence of life into space.
These Cognitive Sculptures manifest only for a short number of days, at the precise moment where the existence of life and human perception intersect.
Floating Resonating Lamps on Oike Lake - Ambiguous Cherry Blossom
Each of the lamps on the Oike Lake’s surface floats autonomously. When a person stands still near a lamp, or when the wind blows a lamp, it shines brightly and produces a tone. The light of that lamp spreads to nearby lamps one by one, as they resonate with the same tone, continuing on to the trees on the islet in the center of the lake. If light approaches from the other side it signifies the presence of people there, making people more aware of the existence of others in the same space.
When the wind is not blowing and people are not nearby, the lamps begin to blink slowly.
Resonating Trees - Weeping Cherry glows in harmony with the cherry blossoms. When people or animals pass close to the trees, the trees shine brightly and produce a tone. That light and tone then spreads out continuously, one by one, to the surrounding trees.
teamLab Botanical Garden Osaka is an outdoor night museum featuring a collection of artworks that use the plants, lake, and the ecosystems and environment of Nagai Botanical Garden.
Flowers and other plants become part of the artworks, evolving alongside the four seasons of the botanical garden: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Experience a world where nature becomes art as it is.
