Mystic Flower Life Yukio Nakagawa (2014)

Mystic Flower Life Yukio Nakagawa 2014 / 華いのち中川幸夫 2014 / Hana Inochi Nakagawa Yukio

Documentary about avant-garde floral artist Nakagawa Yukio, known for his unorthodox style of using bunches of rotting tulips and entire heads of napa cabbage. Illuminates the secrets of his creativity through his own words and the notebooks he's kept over the years. Nakagawa began studying flower arrangements with his aunt from the age of 20 and pursued a solitary path of poverty disavowing schools and not taking on any students. His mind-blowing style is underpinned by his glorification of life through flowers, which are ‟beautiful even in death.‟ (Source: JFDB)