Frantic Gallery proudly presents the new series of works by Mocoto Murayama titled 'Botech Compositions' in which the artist brings together in one digita image different types of flowers structuring it in a labyrinth type of visuality with carpet-like expansion.

As in previous works summarized by the titled 'Botech Art' everything starts with the real flower. Macoto finds the suitable plant, dissects it by cutting the petal and ovary with scalpel and observes it with magnifying glasses and microscope. He makes sketches and photographs its parts modeling its form and structure using 3ds Max, a softwear for architecture and 3D animation. He renders digitalized elements of the organic form and creates a compositions, generating symbiotic image that eventually unites the Botanic and the Technical, Organic and Artificial, Nature and Digit. The 'Botech' synthesis, in spite of its oxymoronic nature, stays true to both Science and Nature leading the viewer along the borderline of Mindful Precision and Beauty to the flourishing fields of Aesthetics in Botanical Studies.

In 'botech Compositions', Murayama goes even further bringing separate flowers in one 'digital garden'. Here the image can be enjoyed as an overwhelming and continuous totality while each separate plant, which opens its transparent structure to the viewer, can be investigated as a separate organism. In the current body of work, 12 flowers and buds were used for the composition.

While the traditional carpet develops its patterns - its abstract narration - in 2 dimensional sequence, Murayama's work creates 3-dimentional compositions volumes, perspective and complex 'inorganic environment' to offer the onlooker the visual experience when confronting these tangled images. 'Botech Compositions' as always combine in itself scientific approach and aesthetic values. This works, valuable as botanical studies, allow us to grasp the structure of the flowers which, being precise reproductions of the natural plants, let us compare the various specimens that coexists from this moment onwards in one 'digital herbarium'.

The 'Botech composition - 1' marks the beginning of Murayama's new approach to the assemblage of 'Inorganic Flora', along with the development of previously created 'Botech Art' and 'Botanical Diagrams'. We believe these experiments in Digital Art will shed more light on possibilities of computer generated images to stretch the limits of traditional botanical illustration.

Courtey of Frantic Gallery