The Floating Garden series began in the summer of 2019 with a single rose - a rose my daughter received for her eighteenth birthday. That flower prompted reflections on youth, beauty, and transience, as well as an awareness of the inevitability of endings. Looking at the rose, and sensing my daughter’s growing up, awakened a desire to preserve that moment - to momentarily suspend decay and protect its fragility.
Without a predetermined plan, I immersed the rose in water and ice. Through photographing it, I gradually discovered ways to emphasize the delicate structure of the petals while preserving their natural color. From this initial impulse, the work expanded to include other elements from my garden - flowers, leaves, twigs, grasses, and seeds. In the intimate space of a child’s room, using an ordinary glass bowl, a process of transformation began through submersion, light, and stillness.
The resulting images are not merely photographs of flowers. They are an ode to organic, elemental life, as well as to everyday existence - not its public dimension, but its most private and intimate one. Floating Garden reflects on the cycle of life, embracing both birth and death. The emphasis lies on transience, but also on the beauty present in every stage of existence.
Without a predetermined plan, I immersed the rose in water and ice. Through photographing it, I gradually discovered ways to emphasize the delicate structure of the petals while preserving their natural color. From this initial impulse, the work expanded to include other elements from my garden - flowers, leaves, twigs, grasses, and seeds. In the intimate space of a child’s room, using an ordinary glass bowl, a process of transformation began through submersion, light, and stillness.
The resulting images are not merely photographs of flowers. They are an ode to organic, elemental life, as well as to everyday existence - not its public dimension, but its most private and intimate one. Floating Garden reflects on the cycle of life, embracing both birth and death. The emphasis lies on transience, but also on the beauty present in every stage of existence.
