Beautifully arranged flower mandalas by Arizona-based artist Kathy Klein. She calls the temporary mandalas danmalas (Sanskrit for the giver of garlands).
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Andreas Verheijen, the Flower Engineer
We have no idea what a “Flower Engineer” is, but Andreas Verheijen makes it look like something incredibly cool. Andreas basically sculpts flower sculptures and arrangements into creative, and often stunning shapes. This flower engineer places flowers in a fashion that is most appealing to eyes.
Exploding Flowers Captured in High-Speed Photographs
High speed photography of Martin Klimas often involves around a bang, or a crash. In this case, it’s the bang that made these photographs of exploding flowers possible. To achieve the effect, the flowers were first dipped in liquid nitrogen, where the cool temperature promptly froze them. After that came the effect of a sound gun that shattered the frozen flower. All the action was captured by a high speed camera just before the flower completely went bust.
Birds Made From Flower Petals and Leaves
Artist Red Hong Yi, whom we remember from the time she got creative with her breakfast, is now playing with flowers and leaves to create lovely images of birds. The colors and brightness of flowers seems to blend very well with the brightness of the plumage of birds, and making the series vibrant.
Floating Ripple Vases
These creative vases by Japanese studio oodesign have a spot to place flowers on a PET formed resin void, creating an effect of flowers floating in the water with gentle ripples surrounding them. Neat, eh?
The Sweet Touch of the Hooker’s Lips Flower
The wonderful, probably kissable but risky flower you see here is sometimes called the “Hooker’s Lips.” Since science had to step in to kill the fun, they decided to call it the Psychotria elata. To be honest, we haven’t quite been able to find a “hooker’s lips” name reference for these flowers apart from the …
Flowers Frozen, Shattered, Photographed
An interesting set, the photographs by Jon Shireman show shattered flowers. Not something we’d expect to come by, because there really isn’t a way to shatter flowers. To get around the little problem, Shireman dipped the flowers in liquid nitrogen for some time, enough to make them brittle so he could smash and photograph them.
Monkey Orchid Looks Like a Monkey
A look at this flower, and it becomes very apparent as to why it is named the monkey orchid. The rare flower is found only in high elevations of Ecuador and Peru, and is scientifically known as
Exploded Flowers
Partly inspired by the work of Todd McLellan‘s disassembly series, Exploded Flowers is a series working with the deconstruction of flowers, reducing them down to their basic parts from complete, full flowers.