Treated as a symbol of various implications, such as one’s thoughts and hope, flowers and leaves have been used as a material for languages, literatures and ornamentals since ancient times. We still entrust flowers as a symbol of vitality in this modern times, on which our feelings and concepts of our life are projected.
 
Natsuki Machida, Sayaka Shingu and Nina Kawamata use extensively different style to express their own works, such as canvas, installation, ceramics and Japanese painting, but there is a common feature to develop their own unique representation of flowers and leaves. Replacing one’s emotions and sentiments to motives of flowers and petals, Machida unfolds mental conflicts and the nature of feelings in her installation, canvas works and sculptures. Patiently executing excessively detailed ripe flowers by monotone ceramic, Shingu represents temporal birth and death. Reproducing classical Chinese and Japanese subjects as a traditional Japanese painter, Kawamata imaginatively depicts figures and angels from the Western mythology adorned with flowers and leave to seek for the principle of the universe. These world views of three women will be developed into three different ays of representing leaves and flowers in this exhibit.