The first installation of frozen flowers was showcased in 2021. Fast forward to 2023 in Hokkaido, Japan, Makoto’s latest installation is a poetic and powerful showcase that places a vibrant tower of flowers in another extreme condition.

In Hokkaido, Japan the temperature can drop to -15 degrees, creating the perfect environment for Makoto’s frozen flowers. Makoto aims to study the changing life of flowers and how they change and evolve in extreme conditions. To do so, Makoto covers the flower installation in water that quickly freezes into ice. The result is a colourful towering bouquet encased in a coat of dripping ice.

Makoto hopes the installation encourages the audience to appreciate and contemplate life in nature.

Back in 2021, Makoto was interviewed by designboom where he stated “My mission is to pick flowers and plants which are already beautiful enough to bloom in a natural field and bundle them to rearrange by myself to create new beauty.”

"The lives of flowers and my life are constantly adjoining each other, and that is why I can put my soul into my artwork by uniting myself with flowers under such an extreme state.”

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