Flutter of Butterflies
Flutter of Butterflies
Flutters of butterflies appear from the ground and the walls where people touch.
Through the simple interactions among the butterflies, a part of the artwork continues to create spontaneous order even as the entire flutter moves in disorder.
This piece is called Flutter of Butterflies. However, it is not an illusion of space; instead, the space of the artwork exists as it is in the space where people’s bodies are, filling the space with butterflies.
Images created by camera lenses and perspective represent the illusion of space, depicting a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane. In this illusion, the three-dimensional space appears beyond the two-dimensional surface, and the viewers are in a different space from the three-dimensional space, making the two-dimensional plane a boundary. With this, the viewpoint is fixed, and the viewer’s body is absent. In contrast, this artwork does not create an illusion of space. Instead, the space of the artwork directly exists in the same space as the viewer's body. Walls and floors do not act as a boundary between the person and the space of the artwork, but rather, the space of the artwork integrates with the space in which the viewer's body exists. The viewpoint is not fixed, and their body remains free.