花藝昇華至藝術 Floral Art Uplifted to The Highest Artistic Expression. AMKK

‘People placed a precious plant shipped from colonies inside a glass-walled container, and appreciated its growing cycles inside their home far away from the plant’s own home,’ explains makoto. ‘The series of ‘paludarium’ is a result of new interpretation of paludarium, which is now equipped with various functions and transformed into a contemporary encapsulated environmental system.’

Titled ‘undersurface flowers’, azuma makoto’s latest project is a style of flower compositions that not only document the upper half of the plant, but also the portion of the plant usually hidden below ground. Submerged in water, these animated roots provide a visual contrast and striking counterpoint to the perfectly formed blooms above. Take a look at the compositions below, and see designboom’s comprehensive archive of azuma makoto’s work here.

“The place where this installation was held in Hokkaido is also called the end of the world since blighted pine trees are usually spread out there and that place freezes over in winter,” says Makoto’s studio. “It was the series of how Azuma pursued unknown possibilities of flowers and how flowers express themselves under this condition.”

長在充滿花朵馨香的福岡市，東信說他的血液裡就流著花。他說，他最想紀錄下的，是花朵的刻刻變化，他渴望解構時間，賦予瑰麗永恆。是花藝師，也是藝術家，而近年來，東信也繼續以花朵為媒介，在各種手法、形式下與時間及空間進行一場場人類與大自然的生命對話。

2015年，在法國里爾，他以真空技術將花朵凝在透明塑膠袋中，5000朵被大氣阻隔的花縈繞成冰晶似的花柱，展現真空狀態下窒息的豔麗。