Complex Blueprints Of Plants
Macoto Murayama shows flowers as what they really are: intricate feats of organic engineering.
Macoto Murayama’s fabulously detailed graphics don’t show bank vaults or anything built by the hands of humans, for that matter. Murayama specializes in blueprints of botany. He calls them something different: "inorganic flora"--and they’re not just images of flowers gussied up with engineering class trappings. Each is as precise a representation of its subject as Murayama can manage in two-dimensions. To start, the artist picks a specimen and carefully dissects it. He makes sketches and takes photographs, and then painstakingly models its structure with 3-D software. Next, he renders all those parts, arranges them in Photoshop, and overlays them with measurements, labels, names, and other information.