By Jessica Stewart on August 2, 2024
“The process of how natural life rises, grows, and then falls away captivates me.”
Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Katayama highlights the relationship between insects and flowers through exceptional videos. For eight years, he has been adding new work to his ongoing Umwelt series. The work merges a time-lapse video of flowers blooming together with insects crawling on the plants in slow motion.
This makes for a dynamic composite as the slow motion and time-lapse create a hypnotic video. Named after a German word that roughly translates to “self-centered world,” Umwelt is a way for Katayama to extract beauty from living things. And at the same time, it allows him to bring the public along for the adventure, pushing them to join him in his appreciation for the natural world.
“I have always been fascinated by nature, mainly insects and plants, because their existence is derived from the same power that also lives inside me,” he shares. “I love how flowers and plants are a riot of color and a medley of shapes, with delicately made antennae, petals, and leaves. I also enjoy watching the mechanism of life unfold in a small, confined space. The process of how natural life rises, grows, and then falls away captivates me. I look deeply into flora and fauna as if they were parts of me, and create a piece from that place of respect.”[…]
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Grenoble, France (2024). Photo by Andrea Berlese. All images © Seth Globepainter
From France to Kenya to Hong Kong, Seth Globepainter (previously) continues to traverse the world, sharing moments of curiosity and discovery on the sides of buildings and in neighborhood parks. Evoking the joy and optimism of children at play, he adds vibrant color to walls at a variety of scales to encourage imagination. Recent paintings feature a young girl unzipping a blue sky—an interior world—on the side of an apartment building in France, a group of children playing within arched windows in Cyprus, and a young boy painting a picture in his bright school uniform in Kenya.[…]
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