HIDEYUKI NIWA BOTANICAL METAMORPHOSIS

Japanese flower artist Hideyuki Niwa seeks to express the secret beauty of flowers and plants. He wants to disclose that kind of beauty that often goes unnoticed.

Botanical Metamorphosis is a process of dismantling nature’s original shapes and reconstructing them in a new design that magnifies certain features and awakens a new kind of beauty. The result is an inspiring and evocative collection of flawlessly executed pure and elegant designs that stir the senses and touch the heart.

Botanical Metamorphosis Hideyuki Niwa

ISBN 978-90-5856-606-5

9 7 8 9 0 5 8 5 6 6 0 6 5

4—5

By developing a special sense or awareness for flowers and plants, by always being on the lookout for them, and by trying to see flowers and plants from a new point of view, you will see 'something'.

The expression in flower heads, the movement – the ‘breathing’ – of leaves, the heart beating in the stems and the will of branches... Capture every moment in the blink of an eye.

In order to enhance the charm of nature captured, one must 'dismantle’ the original shapes, ‘reconstruct’ them and awaken a new kind of beauty.

This is Botanical Metamorphosis.

感 覚を研ぎ澄まし、 常に新しい視 点で、花・植物と向き合うことにより、 みえてくるものがある。 花の表 情 、葉の息 遣い、茎の鼓動、枝の意思…。 逃さないように、瞬 時に捉える。 捉えた魅力を最 大 限に引き出すため、 本 来の姿から「 解 体・再 構築」を繰り返し、 新たな美を覚 醒させる。

Fog — 霧

Preface

これがB o t a n i c a l M e t a morphosis である。

Love-Hate — 愛憎

8—9

Quietness — 静寂なる

14 — 15

Feeling of Sakura #002 — 桜の気持ち #002

Feeling of Sakura #001 — 桜の気持ち #001

18 — 19

Tense Atmosphere #002 — 張り詰めた空気 #002

26 — 27

Fit — はまる

Dwelling — すみか

48 — 49

Beating — 鼓動

66 — 67

Japanese flower artist Hideyuki Niwa seeks to express the secret beauty of flowers and plants. He wants to disclose that kind of beauty that often goes unnoticed.

Botanical Metamorphosis is a process of dismantling nature’s original shapes and reconstructing them in a new design that magnifies certain features and awakens a new kind of beauty. The result is an inspiring and evocative collection of flawlessly executed pure and elegant designs that stir the senses and touch the heart.

Botanical Metamorphosis Hideyuki Niwa

ISBN 978-90-5856-606-5

9 7 8 9 0 5 8 5 6 6 0 6 5