TeamLab Exhibition in Chiba Combines Light, Darkness, Nature, and a Sense of Vast Time

The Yōrō River in the early evening; the TeamLab venue is across the red Taiko Bridge. (© Nippon.com)

Flowers are projected onto a cliff with layers of exposed rock in the display “Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Deep Time.” (© Nippon.com)

Trees constantly change color, reacting as people pass through the “Resonating Yōrō Valley and Forest.” (© Nippon.com)

Parmotrema tinctorum lichen, a symbiotic combination of fungus and algae, glows bright yellow and blue in “Crystallized Accumulation of Time.” (© Nippon.com)

A fallen tree represents the continuity of life at “The Non-Dual Mass of Life and Death.” (© Nippon.com)

Egg-shaped objects change color when touched in the “Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life.” (© Nippon.com)

Light is found in the depths of darkness overhead at the “Strata of Traces in the Yōrō Valley.” (© Nippon.com)

A waterfall suddenly appears at the “Universe of Water Particles in the Forest of the Yōrō Valley.” (© Nippon.com)

The “Constant Flux Pillar” is composed of light and undulates like it is alive. (© Nippon.com)

Words of prayer fill the cave in “The Eternal Universe of Words in the Rock Cavern.” (© Nippon.com)

Light makes the forest path look like a photograph in the “Cut Out Continuous Life” display. (© Nippon.com)