靜止沉浮
簡單即神迹
對于立陶宛設計師tadaocern 而言，在工作室中的日常創作就如遊戲一般。好奇心是一切作品的源泉，“黑色氣球”也不例外。設計師花費了大量的時間去連接配接兩隻氣球，他堅持在工作之餘進行嘗試，但一直以失敗告終。與此同時，他覺得非常神奇，兩件平凡無奇的玩具間産生的互斥反應激發了他探索的心。這一經驗揭示出許多事物，越是深入其中，就越能感受到“簡單即神迹”的真理。
every single day i spend at my studio and my creative process resembles playing. everything i create comes out of curiosity. the same happened with a project ‘black balloons’. for an extensive amount of time i had an idea to connect two balloons. i found a free minute between the other currently run projects, bought two balloons, and got overwhelmed by the result. it was so unpretentious and so magical at the same time! that opposition created by two very simple and playful objects once again brought a unique childlike sense of discovery. this experience uncovers a lot and the more one looks at it, the more it becomes true: “simplicity is genius”.
在第一個項目中，設計師隻用了兩隻氣球和兩種品質不同的氣體：氦氣與六氟化硫。之後他還研究了如何使氣球在沒有任何連接配接的情況下懸浮在玻璃箱的中央。這些黑色的氣球按照順序被排布于特定的空間，使觀看者産生現實在蔓延增擴的錯覺。
for the first test i only used two balloons and two different gasses: helium and sulfur hexafluoride – the light and the heavy ones. later on i worked out how to make the balloons float in the middle of a glass tank without connecting them to anything. once placed in a particular space these black objects divide it in to many equal segments and trick viewers mind by giving him a feeling that he’s seeing a rendering from augmented reality.
不僅如此，它們還會與觀看者形成各種互動：試想一位觀衆路過所帶來的微風将會對400個氣球組成的裝置産生怎樣的影響，但随後這些氣球很快又恢複到最初完美排列的狀态，這看上去宛若虛拟世界，比起現實而言，它更像是由電腦産生的圖像。
furthermore, they interact with the spectator in so many ways – one can only imagine how a sculpture made out of 400 balloons would react to a wind that one creates just by walking by. and after a second the composition returns to its previous state forming a perfect grid that looks so unrealistic, because this is more common for a computer generated images rather that a reality around us.