[← Back to work](https://cheyuwu.com/work/) Installation2025 # The Coffee Dreamscape ![The Coffee Dreamscape](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/coffee-dreamscape/dreamscape-noon.webp) The flavour chapter at noon (source render 7680 × 2160) Archive year 2025 Type Installation Artist Che-Yu Wu 吳哲宇 Venue Starbucks Reserve™ DREAM PLAZA Taipei Location The terraced seating area Dimensions 15.5 × 2.8 m Two chapters A flowing landscape and a poem of flavour Live inputs Taipei’s weather and time of day, plus footfall and sales data in the space Contents & work details Archive year 2025 Type Installation Artist Che-Yu Wu 吳哲宇 Venue Starbucks Reserve™ DREAM PLAZA Taipei Location The terraced seating area Dimensions 15.5 × 2.8 m Two chapters A flowing landscape and a poem of flavour Live inputs Taipei’s weather and time of day, plus footfall and sales data in the space Overview A real-time installation inspired by coffee-growing landscapes, shaped by Taipei’s weather, time, visitor flow and sales data. ## Work and viewing Presented in the mountain-shaped seating area at Starbucks DreamPlaza, the work alternates between a landscape of coffee trees responding to climate and a spectrum of colors associated with coffee flavors. These movements connect the journey from origin to cup with life in the store. ## Original work record Original text: Starbucks Reserve™ DREAM PLAZA Taipei, artwork page **Coffee is the doorway to dreams.** In this digital dreamscape, mountains and skies intertwine. The fragrance of memory rises with the colors of emotion, and every cup of coffee becomes a bubble, holding moments and feelings that cannot be replicated. When you gaze into *The Coffee Dreamscape*, you are not looking at a still image. It shifts with time and space, reshaped by people, choices, and emotions constantly generating, repainting, and blooming. ## Films & interaction [The Coffee Dreamscape — work documentation](https://www.youtube.com/embed/L-2N4EpOIkE) The Coffee Dreamscape — work documentation[Open in a new tab](https://www.youtube.com/embed/L-2N4EpOIkE) Images9 ![The Coffee Dreamscape — the landscape chapter](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/coffee-dreamscape/landscape-2pm.webp) The landscape chapter at 2 p.m.; the coffee trees grow with Taipei’s current weather and time of day ![The Coffee Dreamscape, installation view](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/coffee-dreamscape/store-01.webp) The 15.5-metre image runs along the terraced seating. Starbucks Reserve™ DREAM PLAZA Taipei ![The Coffee Dreamscape, installation view](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/coffee-dreamscape/store-03.webp) A visitor sits in front of the work and becomes part of it. Starbucks Reserve™ DREAM PLAZA Taipei ![The Coffee Dreamscape, installation view](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/coffee-dreamscape/store-02.webp) The terraced seating area seen in full. Starbucks Reserve™ DREAM PLAZA Taipei ![The Coffee Dreamscape, installation view](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/coffee-dreamscape/store-04.webp) The scene shifts with the light over Taipei at that moment. Starbucks Reserve™ DREAM PLAZA Taipei ![The Coffee Dreamscape — the flavour chapter](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/14557b4fda07.webp) The flavour chapter: each coffee becomes its own spectrum of colour. Work documentation from MonoLab ![The Coffee Dreamscape — the flavour chapter](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/414c572aa64b.jpg) The dominant colour follows whichever coffee is most popular at the time. Work documentation from MonoLab ![The Coffee Dreamscape — the flavour chapter](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/c7497ce81831.webp) When people gather, coffee trees grow from where they stand. Work documentation from MonoLab ![The Coffee Dreamscape, installation view](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/mirror/cbf79bc485ef.webp) The landscape chapter across the seating area. Work documentation from MonoLab Grown from the daily practice: the coffee trees and flowers of June 2024 This work grew out of the “3D Particle Collider” family: 22 daily sketches, 2024-06-03 to 2024-07-15. 21 of the links are forks; 21 are private, shown but not linked. ![240612 Brush Clouds](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2298573@2x.jpg) private240612 Brush Clouds2024-06-12 ![240708 Coffee Dream - 2-3 Mountain](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2313013@2x.jpg) private240708 Coffee Dream - 2-3 Mountain2024-07-09 ![240708 Coffee Dream](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2312563@2x.jpg) private240708 Coffee Dream2024-07-08 ![240617 Coffee Tree v2](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2313048@2x.jpg) private240617 Coffee Tree v22024-07-09 ![240617 Coffee Tree v1](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2301880@2x.jpg) private240617 Coffee Tree v12024-06-17 ![240710 Flowers 10](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2313523@2x.jpg) private240710 Flowers 102024-07-10 ![240616 Flowers 8](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2301023@2x.jpg) private240616 Flowers 82024-06-16 ![240702 Sea](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2310189@2x.jpg) private240702 Sea2024-07-02 ![240625 Mountains](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2306618@2x.jpg) private240625 Mountains2024-06-25 ![240619 Flowers 9](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2302681@2x.jpg) private240619 Flowers 92024-06-18 ![240614 Flower of the Other Shore](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2300241@2x.jpg) private240614 Flower of the Other Shore2024-06-14 ![240612 Flowers 7 - Brush System](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2298390@2x.jpg) private240612 Flowers 7 - Brush System2024-06-12 ![240611b Flowers 6 Layers](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2297393@2x.jpg) private240611b Flowers 6 Layers2024-06-11 ![240715 Orchid 2D Test](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2315270@2x.jpg) private240715 Orchid 2D Test2024-07-15 ![240611b Flowers 6](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2296988@2x.jpg) private240611b Flowers 62024-06-11 ![240611 Flowers 5](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2296607@2x.jpg) private240611 Flowers 52024-06-10 ![240608 Flowers 4](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2295203@2x.jpg) private240608 Flowers 42024-06-08 ![240607 Flowers 3](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2294588@2x.jpg) private240607 Flowers 32024-06-07 ![240607 Flowers 2](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2294144@2x.jpg) private240607 Flowers 22024-06-06 ![240604 Coffee Tree v0.7](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2291485@2x.jpg) private240604 Coffee Tree v0.72024-06-04 ![240603b 3D Particle Collider brush](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/sketches/2290585-sm.webp) 240603b 3D Particle Collider brush2024-06-03 [https://cheyuwu.com/sketch/2290585](https://cheyuwu.com/sketch/2290585) ![240603 3D Particle Collider](https://kyoko.openprocessing.org/thumbnails/visualThumbnail2290248@2x.jpg) private240603 3D Particle Collider2024-06-03 [See this family on the tree →](https://cheyuwu.com/lineage#f2290248) ## Context & sources - [Original work record](https://www.starbucks.com.tw/stores/reserve/flagship/artwork/work01.jspx) - [Creative notes: Pollination and human feedback (Chinese original) →](https://cheyuwu.com/zh/dialogues/2026-03-28-pollination-and-human-feedback/#section-4ad971f40c) - [MonoLab](https://monolab.world/en/art/15/) Exhibitions, research & collaborations [Contact the artist](https://cheyuwu.com/contact?work=The+Coffee+Dreamscape&from=/work/coffee-dreamscape/) ## Continue through the work ![The Eternal Garden in a Bottle](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/covers/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle.webp) 2025 ### The Eternal Garden in a Bottle [https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle](https://cheyuwu.com/work/eternal-garden-in-a-bottle) ![Unfinished Bloom](https://cheyuwu.com/static/img/unfinished-bloom-2026.jpg) 2026 ### Unfinished Bloom [https://cheyuwu.com/work/unfinished-bloom](https://cheyuwu.com/work/unfinished-bloom) 1 / 0