It all started really simple. The leaf man was born because s/he showed up in a flower arranger's dream. Apparently in the dream, leaf man has the ability to relax the flower arranger, which the flower arranger thinks is because plants and humans can always maintain a perfect distance between each other.
The leaf man is immobile. S/he just stands there, with pale, rice legs... I think, the paler and stouter the rice legs, the funnier! I hear that the actual person inside often suffocates but I cannot help smirking. It's so hilarious.
Apparently, leaf man's sex is distinguished by the types of leaves.
The flower arranger Makoto Azuma is an artist of course, but he refuses to be called so. He runs an haute-couture flower shop called JARDINS des FLEURS, now in Minami Aoyama.His first work that gained him international recognition was Shiki, first shown at Tribeca's Issey Miyake in 2005.
Shiki 2 is practically a frozen bonsai tree. It almost makes you feel guilty to witness it - freezing such a perfect "cosmo" (uchu). But it is a false sense of eternity - because the ice will eventually melt...
Photo credit and more details on Azuma Makoto: http://www.kalons.net/e/artist/artists_13.htm
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