The term ‘Color Field Bathing’ is reminiscent of the term ‘Color Field Painting’. This word refers to the movement of abstract painting centered in the United States in the 1950s, but the representative abstract painters of the time emphasized the spirituality of the sublime. They did not paint concrete symbols, but rather developed pictorial expressions that had a meditative and mysterious element. Common elements of this perspective can be felt in Japanese culture's mystique of minimalism found in Shintoism, nature worship, Zen, and tea ceremony. The history of bathing in Japan has a deep relationship to Shinto and Buddhism, and within the original Shinto purification culture there is a Buddhist scripture that preaches "Reject the seven diseases and invite the seven fortunes.“, which has a history of being used to encourage bathing. In this work, the experience of enjoying the color space (field) of historical abstract paintings is expanded to the entire space and connected to Japanese bathing culture. This is a work that awakens your emotions by reconstructing a meditative and mysterious space with an installation of light and sound.
There are two types of seasonal feelings of Japanese sweets: "Japanese sweets made only in that season" and "Japanese sweets that express the seasons". From there, I focused on "Japanese sweets that express the seasons." Based on Nazuna's concept of "Japanese traditional culture experience", we created a space where you can relax more while touching the colors of the expression "four seasons" peculiar to Japan.
In order to fill the space with fog, the exhibition space was partitioned and another room was created. A fog machine regularly sprays fog into this space to create a space that is always filled with fog.
Consider space composition, lighting arrangement, and lighting using Unity. It was also possible to link with the actual production software, and a complete simulation was performed.
Created a production system that can control lighting and BGM synchronously from scratch. A touch panel is used for the operation unit, and the GUI is designed with consideration for usability.
