Installation2025
The Coffee Dreamscape
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
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.
private240612 Brush Clouds2024-06-12
private240708 Coffee Dream - 2-3 Mountain2024-07-09
private240708 Coffee Dream2024-07-08
private240617 Coffee Tree v22024-07-09
private240617 Coffee Tree v12024-06-17
private240710 Flowers 102024-07-10
private240616 Flowers 82024-06-16
private240702 Sea2024-07-02
private240625 Mountains2024-06-25
private240619 Flowers 92024-06-18
private240614 Flower of the Other Shore2024-06-14
private240612 Flowers 7 - Brush System2024-06-12
private240611b Flowers 6 Layers2024-06-11
private240715 Orchid 2D Test2024-07-15
private240611b Flowers 62024-06-11
private240611 Flowers 52024-06-10
private240608 Flowers 42024-06-08
private240607 Flowers 32024-06-07
private240607 Flowers 22024-06-06
private240604 Coffee Tree v0.72024-06-04
private240603 3D Particle Collider2024-06-03Context & sources
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