Organic Gallery
A garden for resting in moonlight

A storybook garden in the sky,
brought indoors

The 2022 Busan Arts Education Festival, “Waruru, Ururu, Moya,” took “Jack and the Beanstalk” as its theme. For “Organic Gallery” at Seomyeon Norimaru, we imagined the sky Jack reached as a moonlit garden. Moon and cloud lights, six screens among the reeds, and low lighting formed a single landscape.

One room,
a moonlit reed garden

We placed the moon at the center of the short end wall and lined three walls of the long exhibition room with reeds. Three portrait screens stood among the reeds on either side of the moon. Beanbags occupied the center, with white plinths near the entrance.

1 Large moon light 2 Cloud lights 3 3D forest · Three screens 4 3D forest · Three screens 5 Reed bed · Bulbs 6 Beanbag rest area 7 White plinths

1. 1 Large moon light
2. 2 Cloud lights
3. 3 3D forest · Left
4. 4 3D forest · Right
5. 5 Reed bed · Bulbs
6. 6 Beanbag rest area
7. 7 White plinths

Beyond the reeds,
the moon rises

The moon is a large circular light printed with an image of its surface. Illuminated clouds wrap around its sides and base, hiding the lower portion so that it looks like a moon just rising above the reed bed.

One forest,
six windows

Three portrait screens stand among the reeds on each side of the moon. Together, the six screens show different views of a single 3D forest in a looping sequence with animals appearing across the displays.

At the roots of the reeds,
small lights

We placed small bulbs among the soil and bark at the base of the reed beds lining three walls. Low, warm light illuminates the reed stems from below.

A quiet room
for a moment of rest

There is no conversation inside the room. Visitors recline on beanbags and spend time gazing at the moon and screens.

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