aquascape...

Last Wednesday I went to the opening night of the Aqua-scape exhibition at the Beam gallery in Wakefield. It was a really good evening and I was able to chat again with the Japanese architects that built the sculpture along with five Japanese students. I had previously met the students on the previous Friday when I accompanied them to the degree show exhibition.

"Inspired by diverse sources such as origami and jellyfish, Aqua-scape is a remarkable ‘floating’ structure in the cool green seas of The Orangery gardens. Aqua-scape is a cocoon like urban folly or hide out designed and constructed by the Japanese designers Ryumei Fujiki and Fujiki Studio, where the principles of folding paper have been adapted to folding plastic." The sculpture itself is very impressive, a weave of plastic and mesh. I really like how the structure is rigid and angular however the softness of the materials used make the sculpture seem almost fluid in its appearance.

The sculpture incorporates led lights which cause the sculpture to glow at night, sadly I was unable to see the glowing sculpture however I am planning to go back sometime soon when there is a late opening at the gallery.