Shams El -Mutwalli

Japanese born art collective, teamLab, has brought together their team of programmers, animators, engineers and architects to come up with their latest floral piece housed inside New York City’s One Vanderbilt.

The work, Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II, Grand Central Terminal stresses themes such as the environment and mother nature.

The teamLab’s website states: “the artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the artwork in real time. As a whole, it is continuously changing”

The piece intends to highlight the cycle of life and death through the flowers that repeat the process of blooming, withering, and dying.

Although the One Vanderbilt is not officially open to the public, the artwork is available to see from outside the building.

The work was revealed on September 14 and will permanently remain on display.

This piece ties into the collective’s message that “everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity of life.”

The art group has stressed how they intend to use digital mediums to further art, and have been featured in a number of galleries globally.

Amongst them include the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul, and others.