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teamramonycajal  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Macoto Murayama | THE INORGANIC NATURE OF FLOWERS

The image looks like he's basically taking measurements of a flower (none of which, by the way, seem to hold super well to the Golden Ratio of 1.612).

So what's he calling 'inorganic'? This attempt to quantify and operationalize 'flower'? I mean, if you get down to it, even that's organic on its own - it's the process of a brain using some tools.

EDIT: And the website basically looks like he's got scans or models of flowers. So this somehow translates to flowers having an 'inorganic' nature. Does not compute.

Does he explain the premise behind this on his website?

EDIT: You know, I'd be less damning of a lot of art in general if it didn't put up a pretense of trying to be anything other than 'Look, I made a pretty thing'. Because these are pretty, but 'THE INORGANIC NATURE OF FLOWERS' just makes me think this dude's subtly being super-pretentious even if at first glance the whole thing looks pretty unassuming, especially because there is nothing inorganic in the least about them in either the scientific sense of the word or even what I know about the artistic sense of it.





alpha0  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They are CAD drawings.

teamramonycajal  ·  3886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay. CAD drawings. CAD is still ultimately just a tool, like scans and models.