Come dusk, the lamps turn on and create a sort of flying carpet of light.
That word is projected on the floor at times and multiplied so that the letters form a carpet of light, a geometric counterpoint to the watery waves of light that originally swept across the performing space of the Doris Duke Studio Theater here.
The solo show is the culmination of a big year for Chevalier, in which we saw Fractal Flowers at the Museum of Modern Art of Ceret, a "magic carpet" of light at the Sacré Coeur church and the Castel del Monte, and a generative sculpture of Samsung curved TVs. .
But, as I looked out on to the carpet of lights below, as usual when arriving in the Japanese capital, I was already planning my next meal.
When we last left off, French digital arts pioneer Miguel Chevalier was blanketing the floor of a Moroccan church in a "magic carpet" of projected light.
The artist behind the "magic carpet" of projected light in Morocco brought his interactive Fractal Flowers installation to the Museum of Modern Art of Céret for their Exhibition artificial paradises 2014 show.
In 1817, Turner, after visiting the site of the bloody victory over Napoleon, at Waterloo, chose instead to paint the harrowing aftermath: a nocturnal carpet of corpses lit by the sulfurous glare of a rocket, with grieving wives and sweethearts, some of them carrying infants, searching desperately through the human debris.
I push the four thrust levers forward for an experience that repetition hasn't dulled: the unfurling carpet of guiding lights that say here, the voice of the controller that says now; the sense, in the first seconds after the engines reach their assigned takeoff power, that this is only a curious kind of driving down an equally curious road.
"Who wants spots of light on the carpet?" He noted that all the bulbs were incandescents, and that the bulb hanging over the table was on a dimmer, which further reduced its already minimal efficiency.
Ever since its construction was announced five years ago, the bridge has been talked about excitedly in science fiction terms: a "blade of light", a "magic carpet", an "absolute statement", in the words of its designers Foster and Partners, "of our capabilities at the beginning of the 21st century".
Time after time I just miss the shot I am looking for, the brightly lit carpet of the late summer flowers, white and yellow and purple against the aquamarines and indigos of the sea.
