Memento - Photos
Elder berries and red wool
Oscelot, yellow larch and birchwood kindling
Wood sorrel and spotted umbrella
Saxifrage, rain cape and rubber bands
Geraniums on desk
Ashes and hydrangea
Ginkgo, pins and moss
Ivy and rosehips with screws
Pokeweed with skein of thread
Forsythia with blue pagemarkers
Oak foliage, soil and clothes pegs
Birch over a bowl of strawberry plants
Work trousers and sawara cypress
Witch hazel, string and worm-eaten apple
Vine in bag with snail
Berberis with burning matches
Perennial cornflower and suit
Misteltoe with soft soap and handmade brush
Japanese laurel and rose in gravy boat
Peachtree branch and stones with holes
Marten, rose and plastic basket
Geranium and mink
Crystal goblets, duckweed and pinecones
Bamboo in towel
Wilted saxifrage, dry twigs and money
Acanthus and leather purse
Sedum and leather bergenia
The Memento series is a very personal story. When my father had to go into a nursing home we cleared out his house for sale. He left ample collections of all sorts of things from his home, the workshop and garden. These included articles my mother had left behind and which he had never had the heart to discard.
In classical still lifes each object and each plant carries a meaning indicative of a Christian world view. Here is my own personal hebarium. There are 28 different images in the series. All images are presented in the book “Memento”