Static and floating
Simplicity is miracles
For Lithuanian designer Tadaocern, everyday creation in the studio is like a game. Curiosity is the source of all works, and the "Black Balloon" is no exception. The designer spent a lot of time connecting the two balloons, and he insisted on trying it outside of work, but it always failed. At the same time, he felt very magical, and the mutually exclusive reaction between two ordinary toys stimulated his heart to explore. This experience reveals many things, and the deeper you go into it, the more you can feel the truth that "simplicity is miracle."
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”.
In the first project, the designers used only two balloons and two gases of different qualities: helium and sulfur hexafluoride. Afterwards he also studied how to make the balloon suspended in the center of the glass box without any connection. These black balloons are arranged in order in a specific space, giving the viewer the illusion that reality is spreading and expanding.
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.
Not only that, but they also interact with the viewer: imagine how the breeze that a spectator passes by will affect the device of 400 balloons, but then the balloons quickly return to their original perfectly arranged state, which looks like a virtual world, more like a computer-generated image than a reality.
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.