Check out this one: The contemporary open air museum Arte Sella in Italy premieres the new artwork Liquid Landscape by Daan Roosegaarde. Visitors experience an unexpected fluid movement when stepping on this surreal landscape of grass. Liquid Landscape creates a playful dialogue between people and nature, revealing our symbiotic relationship with the environment.
What may at first seem like a small dune or Dutch dike, transforms into a liquid landscape the moment you set foot onto it. By walking onto the 50m2 artwork, the surface begins to move, and gentle ripples occur in the grass. A carefully designed collage of local soil and water is buried in the Italian ground, and covered with a custom flexible container of nutrients and grass. As more visitors step onto the artwork, the ripples become more vibrant and symbolise the ecological footprint.
Liquid Landscape is the permanent public artwork commissioned by the contemporary open air museum Arte Sella in Italy. Roosegaarde was asked to create something with a challenging framework: no use of electricity, no use of artificial light, low maintenance, robust for decades, yet interactive to people.
I am a huge admirer of Daan Roosgaarde and I was lucky enough to meet and work together at a trendseminar in Dubai.