Art
Nature
#ENESS
#immersive
#installation
#light
#public art
#rocks
#sound
![towering rocks rest in a park in glowing hues of peach, tan, and yellow. passerby observe.](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwagumi-ff-2.jpg)
Photograph by Finbarr Fallon. All pictures © ENESS, shared with permission
Iwagumi is a Japanese time period that refers back to the methodical association of rocks in aquascaping. Normally taking up the type of daring, weighty stones resting amongst one another in opposition to open, ethereal environment, the distinctive artwork type appreciates and showcases the common-or-garden great thing about rocks. For the tenth version of the i Light Singapore artwork competition in Marina Bay, artwork and know-how studio ENESS pays homage to the inventive custom with a serious set up titled Iwagumi Air House.
The monumental work consists of sixteen prodigious rock types positioned inside a grassy park, as if reworking town into a huge aquarium. Metropolis dwellers wander across the rocks similar to marine life exploring nooks and crannies underwater. Towering as much as 13 meters excessive, the tallest buildings mimic the upward ascent of surrounding metropolis buildings. And though the visible indication of rugged texture makes each bit appear hefty, the bouldering types possess a sene of weightlessness, as they’re all inflatable.
Iwagumi Air House is accompanied by an immersive soundscape that features aural parts of “birds, night time frogs, crickets, monkeys, bats and mountain streams,” says a competition assertion. “Because the viewers strikes by way of the set up, every rock triggers completely different sounds randomly including to the general auditory collage.” The association provides passersby a momentary retreat from the bustling fashionable hub in an illuminated wilderness.
Go to the competition’s website to view this yr’s artwork installations, and take a look at ENESS’s web site and Instagram for extra initiatives.
![towering rocks rest in a park in glowing hues of purple and blue. passerby observe.](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwagumi-ff-4.jpg)
Photograph by Finbarr Fallon
![towering rocks rest in a park. the sun shines in the background](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwagumi-ff-5.jpg)
Photograph by Finbarr Fallon
![towering rocks rest in a park in glowing hues of light blue, green, and peach. passerby observe.](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwagumi-ff-3.jpg)
Photograph by Finbarr Fallon
![towering rocks rest in a park](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwagumi-ff-6.jpg)
Photograph by Finbarr Fallon
![towering rocks rest along the water in glowing hues of red and orange](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwagumi-ff-1.jpg)
Photograph by Finbarr Fallon
![a small child reaches outward at a large boulder-looking form in a park](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iwagumi-scs-1.jpg)
Photograph by Shiya Inventive Studio
#ENESS
#immersive
#installation
#light
#public art
#rocks
#sound
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