BOUQUET

BOUQUET

Not just flora, but feeling — digitally arranged and emotionally charged.

Flower painting, especially still life featuring bouquets, has long served as a vessel for beauty, symbolism, and coded emotion. From Dutch vanitas still lifes that warned of mortality, to Japanese ikebana arrangements reflecting spiritual harmony, to the Romantic floriography of Victorian love letters — the flower has historically bloomed across meaning and medium.

In BOUQUET, this symbolic tradition mutates through contemporary tools: pixelation, datamosh, neural rendering, collage, and 3D animation. Each of the eight featured works offers a distinct reflection on how we cultivate, perceive, and immortalize nature in the digital age. This is a flowerbed of innovation — where glitch meets grace, and code meets color.

0009 — Remembrance Gathered, In Change

A rose, for Nana.

0009’s piece is a digital still life brimming with intimacy. At first glance, it floats as impression — a single rose adrift. Step closer, and the construction reveals itself: textured layers of memory, abstraction, and loss. The flower, held delicately in water, shifts between clarity and blur, between presence and absence.

The work’s title echoes its emotional cadence — remembrance, change, the passage of time — while the dedication “to my Nana” roots it in personal grief and love. This is a floral memento mori made soft: not a reminder of death, but a vessel for what persists beyond it.

ADHD — Continuity

pleasure in decay

In Continuity, ADHD warps and weaves petals through his signature language of cerebral collage and digital painting. The composition rots beautifully — floral matter blurred into viscera, loops, and rhythm. Petals curl like smoke; stems fracture into feedback.

There is pleasure here, yes — but it is the pleasure of entropy, of watching something melt gorgeously. Floral still life becomes glitch-life: alive not in stillness, but in distortion. It’s a meditation on transience and digital erosion — where the bouquet doesn’t bloom, but dissolves.

FVCKRENDER — Catch The Light

A contemplative choreography of digital light.

Created for a monumental LED installation at W1 Curates in London, Catch the Light is a mesmeric, meditative loop — a crystalline bloom that pulses with synthetic illumination. FVCKRENDER’s visual language speaks in smooth surfaces and refracted radiance: flowers not as earthly beings, but divine phenomena.

The light doesn’t just illuminate — it transforms. Drawing from the artist’s personal journey through anxiety and depression, the animation becomes a kind of inner aurora. A therapy, a balm, a digital chant. Paired with ambient audio by The Holy, this piece is less object and more presence — an invitation to stillness in a screen-lit world.

Goyong — Pixel Flower #0

The seed of a system.

Pixel Flower #0 is both a solitary bloom and the DNA of a garden. As the foundational image in Goyong’s Pixels in Bloom series, it contains the initial logic — the raw pixel lattice — from which an entire ecosystem of digital flora will stem.

Rendered with a lo-fi clarity, the work feels equal parts specimen and signal. It nods to the generative lineage of flower art: from natural selection to algorithmic iteration. The flower here is not just an aesthetic object, but a computational genesis — the alpha of a bloom that mutates in code.

Ottis Ots — A Dança das Flores

Audio-reactive bloom, in rhythmic transcendence.

In A Dança das Flores, Ottis Ots asks: what does a flower’s energy sound like? Built from his ongoing research into hidden patterns in nature, this piece becomes his first audio-reactive animation — a hypnotic motion where abstraction replaces figuration.

The flowers do not merely sway; they vibrate, shimmer, and dance with the sonic waveform. It is the visual language of the unseen — a kind of floral synesthesia. What we witness is not nature mimicked by code, but code revealing the mystical resonance of nature.

Pho — don’t go

A single whisper, blooming quietly.

Pho’s don’t go is the quietest cry in the bouquet — and perhaps the most tender. The title, lowercase and desperate, echoes through the blurred floral field. The palette is subdued, almost fading. The flower barely asserts itself. The plea — “I don’t want to wake up” — floats beneath.

It is a visual lullaby, a digital ode to holding on. The work recalls the dreamlike ephemerality of a pressed flower in a book — not entirely alive, but not fully gone. This is the bouquet’s whisper, the emotional edge of petal and memory.

TechKeyz — Flora Millennia

Forever caught in the wind.

A digital breeze animates Flora Millennia, where flowers are rendered timeless by movement. TechKeyz treats motion not as effect, but as essence: a bloom is not frozen, it flows. The loop offers no finality — only continuation, like seeds on wind or thoughts mid-bloom.

By stripping the flower of stillness, the artist redefines its beauty — not as static perfection, but as perpetual transformation. It is an eternal return of digital spring.

Trizzy Trunk — Perennial Processing

From metal to petal, from glitch to god.

In this hypnotic 2-minute loop, Trizzy Trunk conjures the alchemy of decay. A chrome chip — slick, nostalgic, and precise — begins to melt. Through datamoshing and frame deletion, it collapses, giving rise to a hibiscus flower. From glitch, life emerges.

Perennial Processing is both critique and chant: a meditation on impermanence, a transformation of rational tech into organic bloom. Glitch becomes grace. The flower, ephemeral as it is, symbolizes immortality — life through decay, machine through spirit, bloom through breakdown.

Final Thoughts

BOUQUET is not a garden of serenity. It is a garden of ideas — where each flower is a cipher, each bloom a reinterpretation. In the hands of these eight artists, the floral still life isn’t static or silent. It pulses, pixelates, morphs, mourns, and mutates.

In a time when nature is increasingly mediated through screen and system, these works ask: what is a flower now? A memory, a glitch, a pixelated ache? Or something more enduring — something that persists and adapts, no matter the medium?

This is BOUQUET. Not just flora. But feeling.