
“Particle Poetry” by teamLab opens tomorrow, 27 February!In this digital work featured in the show, a gold surface unpeels to reveal an ancient city bustling in its everyday glory. Amid a richly coloured, dreamlike background harkening the landscapes of Edo-period Japanese art, a story unfolds.A disease spreads throughout the city, moving a man named Hiraku Genji to follow the disease to a mountain village. One day, the mountain village is asked to give timber to the city. When villagers cut down a sacred tree, Yamata no Orochi, an eight-headed serpent, becomes enraged and casts heavy rain and floods the valley—sparking a battle between the gods of the forest and warriors who are called to defend the mountain villagers.The warriors emerge victorious; but the battle destroys the natural land of the mountain villagers, leaving them suffering from hunger. In despair, Hiraku Genji plants a seed over the corpse of Yamata no Orochi—where, gradually, flowers begin to bloom from the corpse. Th…