當巨大的瀑布橫空出現在城市時，其景象本身就是一種奇景，亦或是一種奇蹟。
作品「逆轉瀑布」是我們延續「運用幻象」的創作系列，以水為題、以光為素材，應用視錯覺的手法，呈現與水相關的題材與光景。而這次的作品與以往不同的是，試圖在阿姆斯特丹的都市場景中，鑲入一座巨大的光之瀑布，並與城市的建築地標：NEMO相結合。
NEMO的外型猶如一艘巨船，作品巧妙地利用建築立面退縮的夾縫，嵌入作品的燈網與結構，運用懸吊的工法，將自然垂掛形成的弧面燈網分段設置，創造出館方要求的疏散動線與車道場域，同時彈性地建構出瀑布尾段與海上浮台銜接時所需的緩衝空間。「逆轉瀑布」從側邊觀看，就像數片巨大的紗簾垂掛在空中，但轉到正面時，片段的燈網就會共構出近十樓高的光瀑。
「逆轉瀑布」除了在都市中再創奇幻的空間場景，也試圖帶入時間的元素；作品的基地是科學博物館，以科學的角度逆流而上的瀑布在現實上是不可能的，但光卻能夠反轉並實現了這個美麗的想像，於是作品微妙的調整光的方向，來與基地的用途形成有趣的反轉，並以光對抗地心引力，刻意令觀者在欣賞光瀑布之時佇足與思辯，即便只是短刻時光逆流的幻覺，相信也足以令人擁有嶄新的感知體驗。
The Artwork
The original artwork “Waterfall” continues the creation of our series “Use Your Illusion.” Through a “light sketch” process (the light itself becomes an element, like a stroke in a sketch), the hand arranged pattern with numerous led meteor lights simulate a vertically descending waterfall. Each led meteor tube has a build-in chip to run in a continuous loop. Looking at the running lights, viewers’ eyes may be fooled into mistaking it with a falling waterfall.
The Theme
One of our favorite subjects is definitely “time inversion.” In our daily experience, time is in some way asymmetric. Past is fixed and irreversible but future is indeterminate and open. But for most laws of physics, there’s no asymmetry of time. The laws of nature themselves do not involve the direction of time, which leads to the other questions: “In what way does time exist?” “Is there such thing as present?” The artwork “Inversion-Waterfall” is a light waterfall running in reverse flow. Creating an illusion of time is moving in reverse. What’s interesting is that when we are watching a reverse waterfall, the objective times is still moving forward. In other words, an inverted waterfall is repeating the past in the future.
The continuously loop of light flow also shows a kind of eternally return. Breaking the direction of time. We feel temporality when we’re conscious of the light flow. However, the reverse waterfall creates a mistakenly feeling that there’s interwoven with the moments of past and present. What are the possibilities that arise when two kinds of temporality meet? The essence of time is no longer a scientific problem, but an existential one.
The scene of a light waterfall appears in a city is extraordinary. Furthermore, “INVERSION-Waterfall” reverses the flow of waterfall to enhance the coexistence of different temporality, providing viewer an unusual experience to redefine the miraculous time.
