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Waterfall Tea House : Gate of Mist
Waterfall Tea House : Gate of Mist
Tokyo, Japan
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Waterfall Tea House : Gate of Mist
Tokyo, Japan
The Waterfall Teahouse reframes the lingering presence that a waterfall leaves upon space and reconstructs it as a teahouse.
A waterfall is a landscape formed by the descent of water, and at the same time, a presence that generates mist, fragments light, sets the air trembling, and alters the very flow of time around it, creating a singular interval (MA) within space.
In this work, the spatial quality of the waterfall is rendered through the lines and voids of diamond-shaped wire mesh. Hanging and overlapping in many layers, the mesh allows light and gaze to pass through, giving rise to gentle strata: the folds of water, the layering of mist, veils of light. From the outside, a blue gate-like structure evokes the entrance to a waterfall; within, the layered hues of yellow, green, blue, orange, and pink conjure the experience of light and rainbow breaking through the spray.
The Japanese teahouse has always been conceived as an enclosed microcosm; a place to clear the mind and sharpen the senses. While inheriting that concept, it is redefined here as a place in which one quietly situates oneself within a flowing natural phenomenon. In doing so, we aspire to realize a teahouse as a spatial instrument; one that finds in the union of silence and dynamic visual experience a means of opening the current of creativity and sensitivity.
A waterfall is a landscape formed by the descent of water, and at the same time, a presence that generates mist, fragments light, sets the air trembling, and alters the very flow of time around it, creating a singular interval (MA) within space.
In this work, the spatial quality of the waterfall is rendered through the lines and voids of diamond-shaped wire mesh. Hanging and overlapping in many layers, the mesh allows light and gaze to pass through, giving rise to gentle strata: the folds of water, the layering of mist, veils of light. From the outside, a blue gate-like structure evokes the entrance to a waterfall; within, the layered hues of yellow, green, blue, orange, and pink conjure the experience of light and rainbow breaking through the spray.
The Japanese teahouse has always been conceived as an enclosed microcosm; a place to clear the mind and sharpen the senses. While inheriting that concept, it is redefined here as a place in which one quietly situates oneself within a flowing natural phenomenon. In doing so, we aspire to realize a teahouse as a spatial instrument; one that finds in the union of silence and dynamic visual experience a means of opening the current of creativity and sensitivity.
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