all images courtesy keita akiyama
Keita Akiyama is a 25-year old in-house product designer at a kitchen utensil manufacturer. But he’s also a member of the Denka Bijutsu (literally, electronic art) collective where, among other things, he envisions and creates beautiful drawings of fictitious plants. But not just any plants.
“What if there existed, someplace in this world, acoustic plants? Why would they make sounds? How would they make sounds? And what would they sound like?” With those questions and a vast imagination he created his series, “Sound Flora.”
If you know me at all you know I love seeing process shots and sketches. And Akiyama has a great blog where he posts about how he goes on nature walks, documents his findings, and then comes up with ideas.
His work is currently on display at the Bio Media Art show through March 24, 2013.
March 13, 2013 at 5:39 am
Wonderful works!
Thanks
March 15, 2013 at 12:26 pm
nice drawings, not as convincing as the original acoustic botany though – http://www.davidbenque.com/projects/acoustic-botany Keita should re-title to avoid confusion!
March 17, 2013 at 8:32 am
Might want to change the name, its too close to the original project by David Benque called Acoustic Botany http://www.davidbenque.com/projects/acoustic-botany