Rui Sasaki Encases Spectral Flowers in Intimate Glass Assemblages

Rui Sasaki Encases Spectral Flowers in Intimate Glass Assemblages

“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in his 1943 novella The Little Prince, a sentiment that drives Rui Sasaki’s work. From what the artist (previously) describes as a “mysterious and ambiguous material,” botanicals appear to float in frozen cubes of water. Sasaki employs glass to document and preserve the nature of the present. Works like “Subtle Intimacy” respond to places and experiences where she feels …