Night of Ten Thousand Lanterns – interactive dynamic painting

An imagined festival night. A whole town on the riverbank, a lantern in every pair of hands, one wish each.

Made with Opus 5.5 · music by echohive An artistic interpretation. Motion, flashes and sound.

Folding the lanterns…

Best with sound, headphones and fullscreen · drag to look around · pinch to zoom

Lanterns aloft

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Evening

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Night of Ten Thousand Lanterns

YI PENG · CHIANG MAI

Every lantern carries a wish, and a little of the year’s bad luck, up and away. On the full moon of the twelfth Lanna month the people of Chiang Mai still walk down to the Ping River, light them together, and let them go.