弧零：雨云与蚀丨美国休斯敦丨James Tapscott,Studio JT

澳大利亚土地与光艺术家詹姆斯·塔普斯科特在休斯敦伍德兰兹的City Place发布了两件全新作品——这不仅是他在德克萨斯州的首次委任创作，也标志着其备受赞誉的Arc ZERO系列两个版本首次在同一地点共同呈现。Arc ZERO：Nimbus与Arc ZERO：Eclipse分别占据City Place公园中的不同水体——这一位于伍德兰兹核心的景观化水处理设施，既充满活力，又是休斯敦最活跃、最具雄心的公共艺术项目之一的所在地。两件作品由Weingarten Art Group委任并管理，共同构成了对水不同状态的整体性体验：液态与雾态、流动与静止、近在咫尺与遥不可及。

Australian land and light artist James Tapscott has unveiled two new works at City Place in The Woodlands, Houston — marking both his first commission in Texas and the first time the two iterations of his celebrated Arc ZERO series have been installed together in the same location. Arc ZERO: Nimbus and Arc ZERO: Eclipse occupy separate bodies of water within City Place’s park — a lively, landscaped water treatment facility at the heart of The Woodlands that is home to one of Houston’s most active and ambitious public art programs. Commissioned and managed by Weingarten Art Group, the two works together constitute a single, expanded experience of water in its different states: liquid and mist, flowing and still, immediate and distant.

▼项目鸟瞰，Aerial view of the project ©Nicki Evans

▼栈道引导穿越圆环，雾气在空间中弥散，

Boardwalk leading through the ring with mist dispersing in space ©Nicki Evans

Arc ZERO：Eclipse是一道安装于倒影水池中的大型半圆，其下半部分由水面中的反射所补全。完整的圆形仿佛悬浮其上——这一形态既非结构本身所能独立生成，也非场地单独所能呈现，而是在二者关系中生成。两件作品均持续喷射高压雾气，在Eclipse中，这些雾气随风漂移、变化，不断打散又重组水中的倒影，使作品呈现出一种持续变化的气候不稳定性，从而不可能出现完全相同的瞬间。在City Place中，Eclipse位于公园最高点，可从远处与下方路径中被观看。观者所处位置决定其所见：完整圆形只有在到达作品所在高度时才显现，而观者自身的身体——其在场地中的位置——成为理解作品的媒介。夜间，嵌入式LED灯光使环形体在水面上散发出温暖的光辉，其倒影进一步叠加并深化了这一效果。

Arc ZERO: Eclipse is a large semicircle installed directly in the water of a reflecting pond, its lower half completed by its own reflection in the surface below. The full circle appears to hover in place — a form that neither the structure nor the site alone could produce, but which emerges only in the relationship between the two. Both works emit high-pressure mist continuously, and in Eclipse this mist drifts and shifts with the wind, breaking and reforming the reflection, giving the work an atmospheric instability that keeps it from ever being the same twice. At City Place, Eclipse is positioned at the park’s highest point, visible from a distance and from below as visitors move through the landscape. Where you stand determines what you see: the complete circle reveals itself only upon reaching the level of the piece, and the viewer’s own body — its location within the site — becomes the instrument through which the work is read. By night, embedded LED lighting causes the ring to emanate a warm luminous presence across the water, its reflection doubling and deepening the effect.

▼水体边界与雾化系统共同构成连续景观界面，

Water edge and mist system forming a continuous landscape interface ©Nicki Evans

▼圆环构筑视觉框景，远处装置形成层次关系，

Ring framing the view with layered installations in the distance ©Nicki Evans

Arc ZERO：Nimbus则以另一种方式运作。与主要通过视觉与位置关系被感知的Eclipse不同——其意义随观者位置而变化，属于一种“外部观看”的经验——Nimbus则是身体性的与气候性的。完整的圆环架设于水面之上，并通过一段栈道直接穿越其内部，观者的身体以最直接的方式成为作品发生的场所：雾气包裹身体，阈值在行进中被穿越。这一体验不仅被看见，更被感知。在特定条件下，雾气捕捉光线，形成流动的光环与折射色彩；风塑造云雾，将其拉伸、侧移、稀释并重组。夜间，环体自内部发光，雾气呈现出温暖的光质，并随系统周期轻微脉动。在对话之中，两件作品共同完成了对水的叙述——这是任何单一作品无法独立实现的：Eclipse使水静止，将其框定为图像；Nimbus则将水释放至空气，使其成为可以穿越的存在。整个场地——围绕水的处理、流动与在景观中的存在组织——成为作品的第三个要素，是使两者得以成立并赋予其对话逻辑的条件。

Arc ZERO: Nimbus operates differently. Where Eclipse is primarily visual and positional — experienced from without, its meaning shifting with the viewer’s location — Nimbus is bodily and atmospheric. The full ring sits above the water surface on a boardwalk that leads directly through it, and the viewer’s body is the site of the work in the most literal sense: the mist envelops you, the threshold is crossed with your own movement. The experience is felt as much as seen. In certain conditions the mist catches the light to produce shifting halos and refracted colour; wind shapes the cloud, draws it sideways, thins it and rebuilds it. By night the ring is illuminated from within, the mist taking on a warm luminous quality that pulses gently with the cycles of the system. In conversation, the two works complete an account of water that neither could offer alone. Eclipse holds water still, frames it, makes an image of it. Nimbus releases it into the air, makes it something you move through. The site — organised entirely around water, its treatment, its movement, its presence in the landscape — becomes the third element of the work, the condition that makes both possible and gives their dialogue its logic.

▼雾气在逆光中形成体积感，强化空间氛围，

Backlit mist creating volumetric atmosphere in space ©Nicki Evans

▼行人穿越装置，身体介入成为空间体验核心，

Pedestrians moving through the ring as the body becomes central to the experience ©Nicki Evans

▼公共使用与艺术介入叠合，

Installation integrating public use and art ©Nicki Evans

自2009年以来，塔普斯科特的Arc ZERO系列已在国际范围内展出，在首尔与高雄设有永久性装置，并于亚洲、美国及欧洲多地呈现临时作品。高雄项目曾获得2023年CODA景观艺术奖，最新在首尔的版本则于2025年荣获享有盛誉的LIT Awards“年度设计奖”。

Tapscott’s Arc ZERO series has been exhibited internationally since 2009, with permanent installations in Seoul and Kaohsiung, and temporary works presented throughout Asia, the US and Europe. The Kaohsiung installation received the 2023 CODA Award for landscape art, while the most recent version in Seoul won “Design of the Year” at the prestigious LIT Awards in 2025.

▼夜间灯光点亮半圆结构，与水面倒影形成完整圆形，

Illuminated semicircle forming a full circle through reflection at night ©Nicki Evans

“这是两件作品首次在同一地点呈现，而此时愈发清晰的是，它们彼此之间的回应是如此完整。Eclipse需要水来完成自身——倒影本身即是作品，而非附加效果；Nimbus则需要身体——你必须走入其中。”

“For the first time both works are in the same place, and what’s become clear is how completely they respond to each other. Eclipse needs the water to complete it — the reflection is the work, not an effect. Nimbus needs the body — you have to walk into it.”

▼夜间瀑布与光带前景叠加，形成层次丰富的水景界面，

Waterfall and light band in the foreground creating layered night scape ©Nicki Evans

Arc ZERO: Nimbus & Eclipse

James Tapscott / Studio JT

City Place, The Woodlands, Houston TX

On view until August 16, 2026

James Tapscott / Studio JT

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