The much-hyped SUPERBLUE Miami opened shortly after Thom and I left Lake Worth last spring.
Still, an "immersive" (if expensive @ $36 per head!) experience sounded fun and it got us out of the Folly for an afternoon.
But I'm not sure I'd call it art. The "curators" claimed that interactivity made teamLab's fields of flowers unique for each viewer. Video captures the environment much better than still photos.
Thom's green thumb grew many more blooms than mine by touching the projected stems. He said the installation reminded him of the Van Gogh experience he'd had in New York last summer.
I enjoyed the waterfall room more.
SUPERBLUE might have earned more artistic cred if I hadn't already encountered a meditative James Turrell light work at MassMOCA several years ago. He seems like the real deal. Photography was prohibited so you'll just have to see for yourself. Thom left the Ganzfeld room almost immediately because it aggravated his tinnitus.
Despite a laughably pretentious introductory film that linked Es Devlin's Mirror Maze with environmental consciousness raising, it definitely turned everyone into Narcissus! Which, in the end, seemed to be the point: people will pay good money for trendy selfie back-drops.
Doesn't Thom look like a sperm in Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex?
He was really pissed the white booties we had to wear covered his bargain Addidas footwear!
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