Origin of virtual species

The epidermis of organisms are discolored and assimilated into the color pattern of the background room. It is a mystery whether the animals were enlarged or trapped in a small room. Plump-like grains on the surface metaphorize eggs for the poikilothermic animals. An elephant is mythically decorated. Elsewhere, the grains create a new layer partially obscuring the space like a drawn ethereal curtain. The viewer can not enter the room. Living things draw us to touch, but here a barrier separates us from this virtual world. These five animals have been treated as symbols in Western and Oriental mythology since ancient times. It was sometimes regarded as a prototype of the human spiritual world and was used for religion, rituals, proverbs and as evil or sacred. In the title of the work Nirasawa borrowed the concept from Charles Robert Darwin "origin of species”, then she added the word “virtual”. An organism changes its property according to the environmental change. Only the species adapted to the environment survives. In other words, we won’t be able to "choose nature" but  we will be chosen by nature. A real room image and a virtual creature image are intertwined.  Like modern society, the virtual space and the real world mixes and is trapped in a box. We immerse ourselves into social media on a daily basis and adapt to the environment without being able to clearly perceive the boundary between virtual and reality.  Which of us will be selected by the environment? We will continue to respond to changes in order to preserve our species and we will assimilate into the environment in future, like these virtual five creatures.