Ten Thousand Flowers Create a Floating Garden, Fragrant and Filled as if in a Wonderland

This is a bright and spotless "garden," with no soil and no sunlight.

Someone walks in, quietly stops, and a flower gently lands on their shoulder. Looking up, every flower and leaf of the plants blooms in midair.

Over 2,300 fresh flowers float in this garden,

as if Alice had fallen into a wonderland.

As soon as you approach, the surrounding flowers and leaves rise together,

as if sensing your heartbeat, lining up to welcome you.

So even though the space is filled with fresh flowers, you can still walk freely. Because the flowers will center on you and automatically leave you a dome-shaped space.

Meeting a friend in this sea of flowers,

your respective domes merge,

forming an even larger dome.

This is the work of the famous Japanese art collective teamLab - "Floating Flower Garden."

Its greatest feature is that it is not merely for people to look at; it also requires people to personally feel, perceive and understand it. The plants and flowers keep living and growing, floating and thriving.

When you come here at different times,

you can also smell different floral fragrances.

Because the floating garden contains not only flowers but also some insects, such as butterflies and bees. When these insect companions are active among the flowers, the flowers are startled awake, and the fragrance becomes even richer.

In nature, plants and animals influence each other. And is it not the same between people and plants?

When you look up at the flowers, the flowers are looking at you too.

Perhaps at that moment, people truly begin to know the flowers,

and people and flowers go from encountering each other to truly knowing each other.

Nature and the world are inherently one with people, and this was also the original intention behind teamLab founder Toshiyuki Inoko's creation."People are a part of the world and nature's cycle. In fact, there are not that many boundaries between people and nature."

Toshiyuki Inoko?

Oh no, his name is Toshiyuki Inoko~

This top graduate in information engineering from the University of Tokyo is called a "perverted genius" by the industry.

He feels that modern people are too distant from nature and have developed a barrier with it, thinking they can live perfectly well without nature,when in factpeople and nature should be better integrated.

teamLab uses fresh cut flowers to create a floating garden. It may seem extravagant, but in fact it intends to use the fragile yet powerful life of flowers to present nature's cycles.

"When human civilization is about to destroy nature, as long as there are flowers, they can serve as a kind of reminder, making us remember the relationship between people and nature."

The ingenuity of the "Floating Flower Garden" is admirable~ Coincidentally, Shaoyao recently saw the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK and learned that an artist named Rebecca (I really want to interview her

) is also skilled at creating "floating gardens."

Rebecca suspending flowers for her Chelsea Flower Show

Born in Cambridge, England, Rebecca comes from six generations of artists and gardeners. It must be said that the family genes are strong, and she is full of artistic talent as well.

During university, Rebecca majored in art at Newcastle University. After graduating, she not only held exhibitions in museums, large shopping malls and art galleries, but also created large-scale floral installations for brands such as Hermes, Jo Malone, Gucci and Jimmy Choo.

Her creative inspiration all comes from nature, especially flowers. The pace of city life is too fast, and Rebecca hopes to create a natural space surrounded by fresh flowers, allowing people to temporarily detach from their busy lives.

In her view, behind the life evolution of flowers is the evolution of time.

With her deep love for flowers, Rebecca has created countless admirable works. And the most stunning of all are the many interactive large-scale "floating gardens" she has arranged:

Purple, yellow and white,

10,000 fresh cut iris flowers hang in midair,

Upside-down irises can still be so beautiful they make your heart tremble.

Rebecca used copper wire to suspend these irises from the gallery ceiling. As time passes, their vivid hues will fade, the fresh petals will gradually wilt, and the enchanting fragrance will slowly disappear.

The beauty of flowers is fleeting, and this process is unpredictable. The suspended flowers in midair are a microcosm of nature.

《The Canopy》

"The Canopy" is Rebecca's work at Eastland Shopping Centre in Australia, constructing a floating garden inside the mall, so that during a shopping break, you can look up and see a sea of flowers.

Roses, irises and hydrangeas,

150,000 mixed fresh flowers hang from the ceiling.

Layer upon layer, a rainbow oil painting drawn with fresh flowers.

《The Yellow Flower》

1,000 meters of fine copper wire entwine more than 10,000 chrysanthemums,

forming a floating garden of millions of "yellow butterflies" dancing.

Even reserved Japanese people, when they come here,

still many visitors lie down,

or kneel, or squat on the ground,

staring spellbound at these suspended fresh flowers.

《Nature Morte》

"Nature Morte" is a touring exhibition. Rebecca's part was in Denmark, bringing together still life paintings and contemporary art works. The artist hoped to revive still life, and the suspended flowers add another touch of artistic beauty here.

Various flowers are hung in midair in layers according to color,

naturally withering in the Boskalis Museum and turning into dried flowers.

The delicate textures of dried flowers,

beautiful like artworks, yet too precious to touch.

《The Hated Flower》

At "The Hated Flower" exhibition held at Coningsby in London, you can touch and closely smell these suspended flowers.Although Shaoyao has a slight fear of tight clusters, seeing this picture still only makes her think, "Ah, so beautiful..."

Lavender, yarrow and climbing roses,

more than 8,000 local fresh flowers create a brilliantly colorful sea of flowers.

This exhibition received an extremely enthusiastic response. For this reason, the premium Italian beer brand Peroni also invited Rebecca to use the concept of the floating garden to create their first "Casa Peroni" for them.

What intoxicates you is no longer beer, but flowers~

The House of Peroni

If these flowers floating in midair were growing in soil, blooming naturally and withering naturally, how many people would still stop for them?

Change the perspective and let flowers float in midair.Let our souls briefly detach from busy urban life and pay attention to the beautiful small things in nature.This may be Rebecca's original intention in creating, and also teamLab's original intention.

We look down far too little,

and cannot even see the little flowers and grasses beneath our feet.

So the artists let the flowers float into the air,

and when we look up at them,

are we not also examining ourselves?