Takashi Murakami transforms the CT room of a children's hospital with his flowers

Renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (Tokyo, 1962) has entirely decorated the CT scan diagnostic room at Children’s National Hospital, the children’s hospital in Washington, United States, with flowers typical of his art. The initiative was promoted by the U.S.-based RxArt, a nonprofit organization that helps children heal through art, including through actions like the one it has just organized: making hospitals more beautiful. And certainly with Murakami, and with his flowers (which are one of the most well-known motifs of his art, a trademark of his “Superflat” movement born in the 1980s), he has achieved his goals.

Murakami has immersed the CT equipment in a large floral setting, with blue skies, white clouds, and his iconic smiling flowers, to make a previously rigid and aseptic, and certainly unsympathetic environment more welcoming to children. The flowers were placed both on the walls of the room and on the equipment. “The project,” the association notes, “transformed a once intimidating room into an uplifting space in an effort to alleviate the anxiety many patients feel when undergoing examinations.” The machine examines hundreds of children of all ages each year; Children’s National Hospital is among the top ten children’s hospitals in the United States and is considered the best in the country for neonatal pediatrics.

Takashi Murakami’s project was supported by Robert and Aimee Lehrman, the Gagosian Gallery, and donors to the Iana dos Reis Nunes Fund.

Pictured is Murakami’s intervention at Children’s National Hospital. Ph. Credit Kenson Noel

Takashi Murakami transforms the CT room of a children's hospital with his flowers

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