Drop Time vol.9 ²⁰¹⁹

Makoto makes art with flowers and plants. Around 2005, he started making botanical sculptures, a new form of floral art for which he is now renowned. He created sculptures with hundreds of thousands of flowers, which he set on fire, froze in massive blocks of ice… He even sent a bonsai tree into space. His work attests to mono no aware, a complex Japanese concept that can best be translated as the beauty of transience. You can experience it for yourself with his Drop Time video series, with speeded-up images of wilting flowers.