An extraordinary garden is
delighting visitors to Japan.A few years ago, before I came down with this serious dose of orchidmania, I would not have believed that these were all the same species, given the astonishing variety of form and colour. Now I know better.
A suspended, living arrangement
of 2,300 flowers rise and fall around viewers as they move through the space at
the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. ‘Floating Flower
Garden: Flowers and I are of the same root, the Garden and I are one’, a project
by Japanese artists at teamLab.
A computer-controlled system
shifts the myriad orchids up and down depending on who is below. Flowers part like
curtains, forming a bubble around the viewer.
The orchids on display take in
water and nutrients through their roots and are soil-free, meaning the garden
is actually growing, even though it’s installed upside-down.
According to the artists, the
scent of each flower is intensified when it’s pollinated by its corresponding
partner insects, and the fragrance changes throughout the day.
The run has been extended to 10 May,
due to demand.
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