{"product_id":"unlike-flowers","title":"Unlike Flowers","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarly bird discount!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDad.\u003cbr\u003eWill Mum come back with Spring\u003cbr\u003elike flowers do?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnlike Flowers is a long-term photographic investigation into grief, memory, and the fragile mechanisms through which presence can persist beyond absence. The project originates from the childhood question reported above: after the death of my mother when I was two years old, I asked my father whether she would return in spring, like the flowers in our garden. This naive question, tender and sorrowful, became at the same time the conceptual and emotional foundation of the work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining family archives, vernacular imagery, botanical references, and newly produced photographs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnlike Flowers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the capacity of images to act as mnemonic devices and relational surfaces across time - even more poignant when the memory of the beloved one is absent. Central to the project is a process of pilgrimage and re-enactment: revisiting locations my mother once visited through Europe, using her very same Voigtländer Vitoret camera, I position myself within the space she inhabited: sometimes replicating her pose, sometimes cohabitating with her. Through layering, superimposition, and analog processes, the images exist in a suspended state between past and present, and neither of them at the same time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work interrogates whether places can retain traces of those who have passed through them, and whether photography can serve not only as a document, but as a catalyst for an encounter. In this sense, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnlike Flowers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e operates an attempt to a relation, an ongoing construction of shared memory where none was lived. At its core, the project proposes image-making as an act of love : a gesture that does not resolve loss, but insists on the reconstruction of memory and connection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artphilein Editions, Paradiso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56238945862011,"sku":"unlike-flowers","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1341\/7181\/files\/IMG_9367.jpg?v=1778169182","url":"https:\/\/choisi.info\/products\/unlike-flowers","provider":"Artphilein Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}