More than 120,000 paper number cutouts create a whimsical installation at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design in Japan.

The sensory experience “Color of Time” was designed by French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux and her Tokyo-based firm to speak beyond language to the masses visiting.

The large-scale sensory experience captures the passage of time as part of the museum series at encompassing a natural dialogue between art and design through material.

Suspended numerical figures in a gradient rainbow palette are aligned in 100 layers to shape a grid-like tunnel where each row signifies a specific time of day.