在一段令人惊叹的延时摄影作品中，一百万朵秋海棠花缓缓绽放，构成了一场前所未有的视觉盛宴。镜头以宏观与微观视角交替展现，从花田整体的色彩流动，到每一朵花瓣舒展时的细腻律动，无不令人沉醉。这不仅仅是对植物生长过程的记录，更像是一场自然的交响乐，由时间亲自指挥。秋海棠花本就以柔美的色彩与优雅的姿态著称，而当它们成千上万地一同盛放时，形成的规模与节奏宛如一幅活生生的画卷。延时摄影赋予了这一过程一种几乎超现实的魔力，让观者得以窥见原本难以察觉的生命节奏。这部作品不仅展示了技术的魅力，也唤起人们对自然细节与四季更替的敬畏与欣赏。

Usually when a museum is flooded with water, something has gone seriously wrong. But at the Fondation Beyeler just outside the Swiss city of Basel, the flooding of the museum is all part of the show: a new site-specific installation called Life by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.

The artist has removed one side of the Renzo Piano-designed building (with the architect’s blessing) and let the feature pond—usually separated from the climate-controlled interior by a large glass wall—into the museum. Visitors can navigate the waters, which are up to 80cm deep, using a series of walkways that run in and out of the building. At night, the interior is lit up with blue light.

Eliasson has also dyed the water a fluorescent green and filled it with pond plants, including water lilies and shellflowers selected by the landscape architect Günther Vogt. The water has been coloured using uranine, an organic dye that is commonly used to observe water currents, and which Eliasson has used previously for his Green River (1998) work where he dyed rivers in cities such as Stockholm, Tokyo and Los Angeles.

In an accompanying artist statement, Eliasson writes: “Together with the museum, I am giving up control over the artwork, so to speak, handing it over to human and non-human visitors, to plants, microorganisms, the weather, the climate—many of these elements that museums usually work very hard to keep out.”

The southern side of the building will be open to the elements for the duration of the show, which ends in July. Eliasson writes that “even if no human visitors are in the space, other beings—insects, bats, or birds, for instance—can fly through or take up temporary abode within it.” This possibility is very much part of the work, with the artist adding that when he first spoke to the museum’s director Sam Keller about ideas for the show, he thought to himself: “Why don’t we invite everyone to the show? Let’s invite the planet—plants and various species”.

The show is open 24 hours a day. “Visitors can access the installation at any time. After 9.30pm they do not need a ticket,” says a spokeswoman. She adds that, in terms of non-human visitors, so far there have been “insects, spiders, ducks, a goose and cats.”