What Looks Like A Pixelated Flower Painting Is Actually A Clever Three-Dimensional Glass Sculpture

At first, it looks like someone has taken a beautiful bouquet of flowers and run it through a particularly artistic digital glitch filter.

Petals dissolve into colorful pixels, stems break apart into tiny fragments, and familiar floral arrangements begin to resemble abstract paintings. But there’s no Photoshop trickery involved. Dutch artist and designer Marius Boekhorst achieves these remarkable effects using something surprisingly ordinary: patterned glass.

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His sculptural series *Violet*, *Violet Frosted*, and *Violet Pixel* explore what happens when flowers are placed inside geometric glass structures that distort the view of what’s behind them. The textured surfaces scatter colors and break recognizable shapes into painterly compositions reminiscent of Impressionism and Pointillism. As viewers move around the objects, the arrangements constantly change, shifting between recognizable bouquets and almost completely abstract fields of color. The glass effectively becomes both the frame and the tool that creates the image.

Born in the Netherlands in 1998, Boekhorst works across art, design, fashion, and other creative disciplines, often finding unexpected possibilities in familiar materials. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Milan Design Week, Collectible New York, and a 2026 solo exhibition at Emanuele Catellani Contemporary in Italy. What makes these floral experiments particularly charming is their simplicity: by changing nothing more than the way we look at flowers, Boekhorst manages to turn an everyday decorative object into an entirely new visual experience.