HANA GRAPHIC ART is far more than photography. How can the essence of beauty in flowers blooming in three dimensions be recreated and conveyed on a flat surface? Keita Kawasaki, a flower artist active on the world stage, has drawn on his many years of working with flowers and plants to develop his own original technique—one that expresses their full appeal within a flat, two-dimensional world. Much as in Japanese-style painting, or in the flat pictorial spaces of Japanese contemporary art, the beauty of living plants is reconsidered through the elements of line, dot, and color, then reconstructed on a flat plane according to a defined concept. The vivid radiance of life, just as the eye perceives it and the heart feels it. HANA GRAPHIC ART is art that seals away—semi-permanently, beyond the reach of time—the harmony of that “fleeting beauty,” precious precisely because it fades, within a screen that resembles an abstract painting.
