Makoto Azuma and Shunsuke Shinoki: Encyclopedia of Flowers III

Pushing deeper into the unknown microcosm of botanical life, volume 3 in the series exposes more of the unparalleled beauty and overwhelming presence of blooming owers from around the world.

Based on their fixed-point observations of the rapidly changing flower market, Makoto
Azuma and Shunsuke Shiinoki have been scanning, visualizing and compiling expressions
of the fleeting moment between the life and death of flowers – the ephemeral beauty
that continues to fuel human desires. This latest volume of the encyclopedia is divided
into seven chapters, more than any of the previous ones.

With increased narrativity, it captures the reader as an overwhelmingly graphic embodiment
of the “cycle of life and death.” Having stepped out of the atelier to use the entire
globe as its stage, the Encyclopedia of Flowers project has taken on dimensions that make
it impossible to ignore.