Magic Morpho Towers -- Two Standing Spiral !

The Video Producer and the Member:

Sachiko Kodama "Morpho Towers -- Two Standing Spirals" (2007)

Collaborator: Yasushi Miyajima (Sony CSL)

Special Thanks:Satoru Saito, Kingo Arakawa, Takeshi Aoki, Osamu Sumiya(UEC), Megumi Sato

Music: Tetsuhide Hidaka, PIRAMI

The 1st time when i watch this video.... I ask my self ' What the Hell is this ? "

Slowly , i saw some liquid , keep spinning around the small tower , before that i thought is a small machine .....

But , when i clearly know what is that i was SHOCK ! How can liquid become a beautiful Arts ?

In the Video , The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic

field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and

rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.

The body of the tower was made by a new technique called “ferrofluid sculpture” that enables artists to create

dynamic sculptures with fluid materials. This technique uses one electromagnet, and its iron core is extended and

sculpted. The ferrofluid covers the sculpted surface of a three-dimensional iron shape that was made on an electronic

NC lathe. The movement of the spikes in the fluid is controlled dynamically on the surface by adjusting the power of

the electromagnet. The shape of the iron body is designed as helical so that the fluid can move to the top of the

helical tower when the magnetic field is strong enough.As there are two towers in the installation,

complicated expressions of surfaces become possible. Each tower’s surface pulsates, like one creature calling to

the other.

Fuild moves synthetically with the music, as if it breathes, and the condition of the fluid's surface emerges as

autonomous and complex. In this art we want to harmonize several opposing properties, such as hardness (iron) /

softness (fluid) and freedom (desire for design) / restriction (natural powers such as gravity). This work emerges as an

autonomous transformation of the material itself: sometimes it seems like a horn, sometimes a fir tree, and

sometimes even like the Tower of Babel.

In this Video , I would like to say :

This stuff was awsome. But in an architectural point of view , there might be huge gap between……

If I have to choose one….. I’ll choose the other side of architecture. Bravely .