It is as epic as it is arresting. With a gentle whirr, thousands of white feathers are blown into the air in a vast clear space where they proceed to toss and tumble like snowflakes.
The man-made snowstorm is the opening work in a new exhibition that tackles a subject over which poets, philosophers and painters have obsessed for countless centuries: nature.
And perhaps nowhere more so have they done this than in Japan. From haiku to the tea ceremony, the quest for harmony between humans and all-powerful nature has been a theme that has long resonated throughout Japanese culture as well as the Shinto belief system.