Water Lily-ish Sculptures and Other Floating Possibilities

(Video link HERE.) Japanese artist Toshihiko Shibuya has placed ‘water pallet’ floating on a square pool of water at the Sapporo Sculpture Garden, Painted with pinks, blues and greens on the underside of their base, the white circles glide on the surface of the basin, reflecting a colorful hue when they overlap.

What a lovely idea. Of course, we tried to figure out how we could do that (assuming we had a pool to begin with).

Looking closely, and at Shibuya’s other work, it appears that some of the pallets are secured with rods that anchor them to the bottom of the pool; they are roughly the shape of large carpet tacks. That way, they can appear in levels, and free floating disks can circle around at will.

That being said, we wondered what materials might work to at least float some “polka dots/disk lilies” in a pool of water. So we googled:

thin disks floating in water

thin plastic floating in water

flat plastic water lilies

floating water lily sculpture

(does rubber float?)

things that float in water…

We inadvertently made a poem. We also came upon another artist who had water lilies in mind for a sculpture: Bruce Munro’s made “water lilies” from repurposed CDs.