Flowers in bloom manifest the changing beauty of nature over time. Kyotoites treasure them as symbols of not only nature but life. Flower-inspired artworks are created in various fields in Kyoto.

A massive skull covered in discarded flowers from Georgia graveyards was created by Lamar Dodd School of Art Director Joseph Peragine and Professor of Art Mary Hallam Pearse.

I’m fully immersed and present within the flower—it contains me ... plants that defined the preceding centuries of naturalist art. She is best remembered today for the namesake gallery ...