Azuma Makoto, Petal Box, 2015. Images courtesy the artist
Living sculpture pioneer and plant artist Azuma Makoto, perhaps best known for launching a bonsai into space, hit Paris with a stunning pop-up installation called Petal Box on Monday. He arranged 10,000 bottles of uniquely composed flower petals to create a rainbow cube of living color in the windows of Colette, Paris."It is one of the most beautiful moments when flowers are in full bloom just before dying. We face this moment a lot as a florists, and the idea came to mind to put flowers almost finished blooming into bottles to capture this beauty," Makoto tells The Creators Project. He's been bottling flowers since 2012, and in 2015 the project culminated in his first Petal Box. Now he's streamlined the concept into two smaller, stunning rectangular prisms.
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Makoto says that he's happy no matter what spectators see in his work, but hopes that "people find new aspects of beauty that have never seen before."
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