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The Flower of the Other Shore

Contents & work details
Archive year
2024
Type
Installation
Artist
Che-Yu Wu 吳哲宇

A digital flower blooming in darkness asks how life, memory and the act of looking meet.

Work and viewing

The original statement imagines a flower without soil or sunlight and turns attention toward memory. Its unfolding form offers a point of entry: how does the flower’s presence meet the life sensed by its viewer?

Original work record

Original text: MonoLab official work record

Where digital life blooms and echoes.

 

Have you ever wondered—
if life were a flower,
where would it bloom?
In the wind?
Or in a flickering image buried deep within your memory?

The Flower of Other Shore is a blossom that grows in darkness.
It blooms in silence — without soil, without sunlight —
yet feels more real than reality itself.
As you gaze upon it,
you may sense yourself quietly beginning to bloom, too.

Films & interaction

The Flower of the Other Shore — work documentationOpen in a new tab

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 Cloudsprivate240612 Brush Clouds2024-06-12
240708 Coffee Dream - 2-3 Mountainprivate240708 Coffee Dream - 2-3 Mountain2024-07-09
240708 Coffee Dreamprivate240708 Coffee Dream2024-07-08
240617 Coffee Tree v2private240617 Coffee Tree v22024-07-09
240617 Coffee Tree v1private240617 Coffee Tree v12024-06-17
240710 Flowers 10private240710 Flowers 102024-07-10
240616 Flowers 8private240616 Flowers 82024-06-16
240702 Seaprivate240702 Sea2024-07-02
240625 Mountainsprivate240625 Mountains2024-06-25
240619 Flowers 9private240619 Flowers 92024-06-18
240614 Flower of the Other Shoreprivate240614 Flower of the Other Shore2024-06-14
240612 Flowers 7 - Brush Systemprivate240612 Flowers 7 - Brush System2024-06-12
240611b Flowers 6 Layersprivate240611b Flowers 6 Layers2024-06-11
240715 Orchid 2D Testprivate240715 Orchid 2D Test2024-07-15
240611b Flowers 6private240611b Flowers 62024-06-11
240611 Flowers 5private240611 Flowers 52024-06-10
240608 Flowers 4private240608 Flowers 42024-06-08
240607 Flowers 3private240607 Flowers 32024-06-07
240607 Flowers 2private240607 Flowers 22024-06-06
240604 Coffee Tree v0.7private240604 Coffee Tree v0.72024-06-04
240603 3D Particle Colliderprivate240603 3D Particle Collider2024-06-03

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