'Exobiotanica —Botanical Space Flight-' by Makota Azuma
Artist Launches Flowers and Pine Tree 90,000 Feet From Earth
Fascinated with the fragility and strength of flowers, Makota Azuma has spent his lifetime weaving ethereal and colorful sculptures and installations, with plants as his primary medium. For his first gravity-defying project, Exobiotanica, he uprooted plants and placed them in a new kind of “nature,”— way up high in the stratosphere.
