“The fact that I can’t get up” — is it my body that won’t rise? No. Not being able to get up was a mental refusal, a rejection of wanting to get up. If that is the case, I may as well give up on getting up, focus on the body lying down, and surrender myself to pure sensation alone. It feels almost like being an infant. I sink into the inside of my eyes, deep behind the retina. And then, what do I find? A soft, baby-like, comforting sensation. Breathing in, a warm heartbeat, the texture of a blanket. It was as if it were stimulating opioid receptors, blending sedation and awakening. The hidden children inside me seemed to have awakened. The ringing alarm clock leads me into a dream. Spreading opioids. A revolving merry-go-round bed. Entering inward, behind the eyes, deep, deep behind the retina. The soft infant awakens. text by ITOAOI

Animation sequences featured in each episode of Netflix’s drama “Disjointed” (Japanese title: “High Life”) Season 1. Based on the concept of the scenery one sees when smoking marijuana, it creates a fantastical world by emphasizing the organic movement of objects and the meticulous arrangement of space.

Art collective. Active since 2001. An international interdisciplinary group that explores the intersection of art, science, technology, and the natural world through collective creativity. It is composed of specialists from a wide range of fields, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects. teamLab seeks to use art to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and to discover new ways of perceiving it. In order to perceive the world, people tend to divide it into separate entities with boundaries. They seek to transcend the boundaries of perception, the boundary between the self and the world, and the cognitive boundaries of continuity in time. Everything exists, precariously and miraculously, on the seamless continuity of a vast expanse of time.

In a way that embodies the world of the lyrics, the protagonist, Kaf, changes form one after another and travels through time, rediscovering the joy of writing a novel. In the dream scenes, the drawings are strongly hand-drawn, with lines as the main focus and little use of shading, whereas in the real scenes, footage of the actual sky is composited in, the use of lines is conversely restrained, and buildings and other elements are rendered more realistically. This creates a contrast in the mood of each sequence while also aligning the story’s themes with the themes of its visual expression.