Narcissist

The human eye is really well made.

In an instant it grasps distance, focuses on what it’s looking at, and captures depth, shape, and color. But turn what it’s seeing into a two-dimensional photograph, and it hardly comes out looking the way it does to the naked eye.

Bouquets and flower arrangements, too—the beauty caught by the naked eye and the impression when replaced by a photograph are quite different. For instance, the overlapping of flower stems that didn’t bother me when seen with the eye can feel noisy; the proportions of a work can look distorted; the color contrasts can feel mismatched—this happens often.

And then it came to me.

Let me think of and be conscious of the beauty of flowers seen in a photograph as the leading role, and compose the color combinations, the overlapping of stems, and the proportions around that.

I tried a method of expression I named “flower graphics.”

As a result, I’ve now been able to make flowers bloom in the world—on calendars, clothing, wallpaper, tapestries, package designs, and more. Since it was, if I say so myself, a well-noticed idea, I want to praise myself.

Just kidding (laughs).