Marius Boekhorst’s Violet Pixel turns flowers into an abstract painting behind patterned glass

Violet Pixel is a glass sculpture by the Dutch artist and designer Marius Boekhorst. It starts from a material most people walk past every day: patterned glass.

Boekhorst is drawn to both the look and the function of this long-standing glass form. Here, he repurposes it into a geometric sculpture. Through it, he explores the nostalgia that such a commonplace material can carry.

Glass as canvas, flowers as paint

Inside the glass box sits a dense arrangement of flowers. The patterned surface breaks their exuberant colours into illusive tones. As a result, the bouquet reads like an abstract painting rather than a still arrangement.

In other words, in Violet Pixel the glass serves as the canvas and the flowers as the paint.

A still life in three dimensions

Because of this, transparency, blur, visibility and distance play against one another. Walking around Violet Pixel changes what you see. From every angle, the piece shows something unexpected, so it becomes a three-dimensional still life.

About Marius Boekhorst

Marius Boekhorst was born in 1998 in the Netherlands. He works across art, design, fashion, music and contemporary culture, and his practice often pushes the limits of materials. Above all, it asks viewers to look again at everyday things and to find beauty in the mundane, the discarded and the nostalgic.

His recent exhibitions include a 2026 solo show at Emanuele Catellani Contemporary in Turin, as well as Basic.Space in Los Angeles and New York, Collectible in New York and Matter and Shape in Paris. His portfolio also includes Violet Frosted, another piece that, like Violet Pixel, is built around patterned glass. For another take on glass in contemporary design, see how 6:AM turns the glass stool into a study of colour and repetition.

Project Credits

Work: Violet Pixel
Design: Marius Boekhorst / @mariusboekhorst
Country: The Netherlands
Material: Patterned glass, flowers