A Garden that Does Not Exist: Lilacs, Dahlias, Lilies, and Fuchsias, 2026
213 x 245 cm
Linocut on japanese paper
I moved to a small town and suddenly there were so many flowers around me. I started to remember the flowers from the gardens of my childhood, where they grew and what they were called. The pitiful shrub on the edge of the parking lot bloomed into pale purple flowers, and realized I was once again living in a house that has a lilac growing on its yard. I felt like a tiny victory; you can´t always choose things like that. I wanted to the capture the flowers of the past with my camera, but the pictures were tied to the present. As the images were reborn as hand-carved rasterized linocut matrices and prints, the new moments of blooming extended through time.
