Ha I I Hwa

Before coming to botany, she studied visual design at university and worked as a graphic designer at a major TV network. Today she is one of the most desirable art directors on the Korean scene, with a unique and easily recognizable style. On the road from design to floral art, there is a dazzle: the one provoked in Ha I I Hwa by the inexhaustible diversity of nature. “The shapes and lines of plants are fascinating: just like human faces and expressions, they are always unique,” she says.

Along with botanical forms, the artist’s other great inspirations are philosophy and oriental art, because of her constant search for harmony between nature and people. Her floral works seem to come from the future: she combines plants and artificial elements to create unexplored worlds, imaginary beings that she herself defines as “alien plants” and that not only have a visual impact: with them she wants to draw attention to a possible future nature in which climate change and technology manage to dialogue.