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LIGHT
IN BLOOM
Melbourne-based land and light artist James Tapsco teamed up with Art Front Gallery and United Art Projects when he devised his latest project in Shenzhen, China.
Named “Diaphanous Bloom,” this abstracted tree stands nearly 30 feet high and is constructed in polished stainless steel, which is so ened and buf- feted by a canopy of illuminated mist.
Completed in early 2018, Tapsco uses the mist as a medium to delineate between man-made and natural elements. In a historical context, the city of Shenzhen has grown from a shing village to a metropolis of 12+ million people in a few decades. Since almost all of the vegetation has been placed there ‘arti cially,’ Diaphanous Bloom was commis- sioned for the new MixC development, which is similarly landscaped with greenery.
“I wanted to produce a work that shows the stark contrast between natural and unnatural. The tree itself is abstracted – and then it erupts in a mist, something that is purely natural, escaping to
light in Bloom
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Australian artist James Tapsco ’s latest project in China continues his impressive history of combining mist with light to create art.
BY LINDA LONGO
