With 'Eternity in a Moment,' Japanese artist Mika Ninagawa portrays everyday wonders

With “Eternity in a Moment,” the Japanese photographer and filmmaker Mika Ninagawa has created an immersive installation in Tokyo where a visitor walks through rooms with various motifs

TOKYO -- Flowers blossoming like pink chiffon, luscious berries and fluttering goldfish make for the delicate but defiant beauty that’s signature Mika Ninagawa.

With “Eternity in a Moment,” the Japanese photographer and filmmaker has created an immersive installation where a visitor walks through rooms with various motifs. One is filled with flowers sprouting everywhere like a Garden of Eden gone berserk.

Other rooms have circles of light popping up in darkness, or rows of fluffy cushions where people take in imagery projected on the ceiling. It's a whimsical bombardment of the senses.

“With the world going through all these momentous changes, we’ve experienced how humble, yet precious, even miraculous, this reality is in the everyday, so fragile like sand escaping through our fingers,” Ninagawa told The Associated Press at her home office in Tokyo.

“We feel we want to treasure this beauty. We feel we want to preserve this moment.”