teamLab Gallery: Matama Beach

In a former sewing factory at Matama Beach in Bungotakada, teamLab has installed a permanent work called 'Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together.' Digitally rendered flowers native to the Kunisaki Peninsula react directly to visitors: stand close and flowers either bloom or die. Over about an hour, the installation cycles through a full year of flowering and withering. The collective cites the area's cherry blossoms and canola fields as their inspiration, and the work explores how flowers depend on human presence to survive. This is one of three permanent teamLab installations in Bungotakada.