Black Balloons

PrizeHonorable Mention in Installation
ArtistTadao Cern
CategoryProfessional

For an extensive amount of time I had an idea to connect two balloons. I found a free minute, bought two balloons, and got overwhelmed by the result. It was so unpretentious and so magical at the same time! That opposition created by two very simple and playful objects once again brought a unique childlike sense of discovery. This experience uncovers a lot and the more one looks at it, the more it becomes true: "simplicity is genius". For the first test I only used two balloons and two different gasses: helium and sulfur hexafluoride. Later on I worked out how to make the balloons float in the middle of a glass tank without connecting them to anything.