摄影师 Mitch Rouse 以其高空视角下的摄影作品震撼人心，将我们熟悉的世界转化为抽象且极具美感的图像。他使用无人机与直升机拍摄，从数百米高空俯瞰大地，使农田、工业设施、道路网络等日常景观呈现出令人惊叹的几何之美。在他的镜头中，一片牧场可能化作色块拼贴的画布，一座工厂则变成线条与结构交织的艺术装置。这种摄影方式不仅展现了大地的秩序与尺度，也让观者重新审视人与环境之间的关系。Rouse 的作品色彩饱和、构图大胆，充满现代主义的形式感。他的影像不仅记录现实，更创造出超越现实的视觉诗篇。在这个信息密集的时代，他用高空的静默凝视，唤起人们对广阔世界的新一轮惊叹与敬畏。

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.”