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Graffiti Nature and Beating Earth

teamLab, 2025-, from the series Graffiti Nature, 2016-, Interactive Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Graffiti Nature and Beating Earth

teamLab, 2025-, from the series Graffiti Nature, 2016-, Interactive Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Graffiti Nature is an ecosystem of creatures drawn by people.


Color in a creature on the paper provided, and see the picture you have drawn come to life and move in front of you.

Living things eat and and are eaten by other living things in one shared ecosystem. 

The creatures you draw will multiply if they eat other living things, but they will die and disappear if they do not eat enough, or if they are eaten by other creatures.

The salamanders eat the snakes, the snakes eat the lizards, the lizards eat the frogs, and the frogs eat the butterflies, each one propagating as a result. Likewise, the butterflies multiply in places where flowers grow. Although flowers will bloom if people stay still, their petals will scatter if people walk around and step on them. The salamanders will die if people step on them too much. Living creatures spread throughout the world, increasing and decreasing in number. The creatures you have drawn may be increasing somewhere.


Beating Earth is this artwork space. In a complex, three-dimensional space, perception based on common sense is separated from perception based on the body, and the space appears to move.

Background of Artwork

Ecosystem

More than 10 million living species are said to exist on Earth. Each and every one of these species lives while interacting with the others. Plants create nutrition from rain, soil, and the sunlight (photosynthesis). Animals eat those plants. These animals, in turn, are eaten by other animals. When animals die bacteria decompose their bodies, allowing plants to use them for nutrition.

All these living things and the habitat they live in is known as an “ecosystem”. Inside an ecosystem, everyone plays a specific role. Therefore, when an animal or plant greatly changes in number due to climate change or human intervention, the ecosystem’s balance is destroyed, thus affecting all that live inside it.

How to interact with the artwork

  • Color and draw on the paper provided.
  • Scan the drawing.
  • The creatures and flowers come to life in the exhibition space!
  • Stand still and flowers will bloom around you, walk around and the flower petals will scatter.
  • Move close to the creatures and they will sense your presence and start to move.

Skills Nurtured

  • Creativity, Power of Expression
  • Respect for Diversity
  • Self-Confidence
  • Interest in Technology
  • Awareness of the Ecosystem

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