Artist is Trapping Flowers in Blocks of Ice

After sending incredible flower arrangements on a wild ride to the edges of space last year, artist Azuma Makota is anchoring his works on Earth—in giant blocks of ice, to be exact—for his latest series, Iced Flowers. The series, describes Makoto on his website, "observes the changing life of flowers that are locked in ice." Like his previous work, he is continuing to investigate the "expression" of flowers in different environments. Makoto invites his viewers to "Please enjoy how flowers and ice change themselves over time in the ruins far from human’s existence—it is an inorganic space that makes a vivid contrast with flowers.”