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#Azuma Makoto #flowers #plants #space
Azuma Makoto Uses the Stratosphere as a Backdrop For His Latest Floral Art
Last week Japanese botanic artist Azuma Makota attempted to go where most artists only dream of going: to space. In a project titled Exbiotanica, last week Makoto and his crew traveled to Black Rock Desert outside Gerlach, Nevada. In the dead of night his project began. The team launched two artworks – a 50-year old pine suspended from a metal frame and an arrangement of flowers – into the stratosphere using a large helium balloon. The entire project was documented, revealing some surreal photographs of plants floating above planet earth. “The best thing about this project is that space is so foreign to most of us,” says John Powell of JP Aerospace. “So seeing a familiar object like a bouquet of flowers flying above Earth domesticates space, and the idea of traveling into it.” (syndicated from Spoon & Tamago)
#Azuma Makoto #flowers #plants #space
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