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Nakaya collaborated with architect Atsushi Kitagawara in the early 1990s to create a playground in which dense fog envelops visitors twice each hour. Visitors experience the sense of being lost as the fog develops and being found again as the fog dissipates. The work is intended to evoke a reverence for nature and a reminder of the cycle of life and death.

In an interview on April 27, 2014 with Irene Shum Allen, Nakaya explains that she doesn't directly create images with her fog sculptures,  instead the fog is a kind of transducer that reacts to the local meteorological conditions. She comments that the landscape can appear to be largely static until fog is introduced. With the introduction of fog, nature's stories and information are made more accessible to the observer.

Author Dan Brown, in the novel Origin, refers to the work of Nakaya as his character Robert Langdon visits the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain in search of former student Edmond Kirsch. Noting that the fog sculpture constantly changing shpae, Brown uses the setting to create an ethereal and dramatic scene as Langdon enters the Guggenheim museum.