Nog één jaar om je los te laten / One more year to let you go
Self-portrait with all the roses I collected before burning them.
Project description
In a last (?) effort to let you go, I decided to for one year buy myself a bouquet of roses every time i saw you. I photographed the roses every day. If i had a new bouquet, I would hang the old one to dry.
After three months I walked into a bar; the bartender looked like you. He asked me about the roses I was carrying and I told him about the project. He said that I should stop; that I wasn’t opening myself up to new experiences like this. At 10am, about twelve hours later, I exited the bar.
That last bouquet of roses never made it to the vase, only to the fire that I burned all acquired bouquets in a week later.
Whether I will every truly let you go, I don’t know. Perhaps I already have.
The roses
The daily portraits of the bouquet in calendar format. Pictures taken over the months of April-July 2023.
The burning
Video + photos of the burning roses ritual defining the ending of this project.
Work for sale
Series of 9 fine art prints representing the 9 bouquets (edition 1). 30x30cm, printed on aluminium with a hd glossy finish (mirror effect).
Paper object (collectible): foldable object including a 1:1 booklet of all rose photos; 2 posters and a6 prints of the burning
Contact me for information on pricing.
