The Delicate Beauty of Flowers Draws Attention to the Cycles of Life and Death

Using flowers as the principle medium when exploring the everlasting cycles of life and death seems fitting – visualising ideas around beauty, fragility and impermanence.

Japanese artist Azuma Makoto  has created a striking exhibition at the Oi Futuro museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which uses swathes of flowers to draw attention to Buddhist inspired ideas around the life and death. From a woven 'rug' of flowers left outside, to a glass case of decaying blooms that allows viewers to get up close and examine the beautiful degradation inside, the exhibition is a gentle reminder of the transience of life and our interconnectivity with nature.