Flowers Die Twice is a project that explores a father-son relationship filled with loss, silence, death, life, and reconciliation. My father died when I was 15, but I wasn't told it was suicide until I turned 30. That's when I began revisiting the images, places, and memories left behind. Margarito, a gardener by trade, wrote a farewell letter in which he spoke of plants and said, "Forgive me and communicate with me."
After receiving this new information, I began revisiting my family archive and the last garden my father worked in, using various digital strategies to alter the images. By revisiting family albums and manipulating the structural data of the photographs they contain, I deconstruct the images and the narratives associated with them, using a glitch or digital error as a tool. From this experimentation, I create new images that serve as a metaphor for "corrupted memories."
At the same time, a three-dimensional representation of the garden using photogrammetry addresses issues related to the plasticity of memory, represented in the plants my father cultivated, which are still alive today. I seek to capture his absence through images and establish a dialogue between our worlds. Photography serves as a starting point to question personal narratives and explore a newly created universe in which plants act as a bridge.
My approach to photography is fundamental to the production process. I am interested in how technological interventions alter the original meaning of an image, expanding the medium to new forms of consumption; becoming a territory for harvesting meanings, conjuring transmission, and reclaiming heritage.
Although Las Flores mueren dos veces (Flowers Die Twice) began as a photographic series, it has also become a virtual reality experience. The user is invited to journey through memory, fragmented thoughts, and the different possible versions of reality that arise from a shift in the course of personal history. Images of plants and landscape plans that began as two-dimensional images become a new immersive reality, raising questions about the new landscapes we inhabit and the discursive possibilities of photography through new languages.
Above all, it is a personal story told in three chapters of images: I. a series of analog photographs altered by code, II. a collection of digital plants created following my father's instructions, and III. an immersive garden accessible through virtual reality headsets.
This project is my response to the last words my father wrote and an invitation to think about all the relationships we once formed and that continue to develop after death.
Published by Dispara
16.5 x 22 cm
64+64 pages (two sections)
2021
Flowers Die Twice is a project that explores a father-son relationship filled with loss, silence, death, life, and reconciliation. My father died when I was 15, but I wasn't told it was suicide until I turned 30. That's when I began revisiting the images, places, and memories left behind. Margarito, a gardener by trade, wrote a farewell letter in which he spoke of plants and said, "Forgive me and communicate with me."
After receiving this new information, I began revisiting my family archive and the last garden my father worked in, using various digital strategies to alter the images. By revisiting family albums and manipulating the structural data of the photographs they contain, I deconstruct the images and the narratives associated with them, using a glitch or digital error as a tool. From this experimentation, I create new images that serve as a metaphor for "corrupted memories."
At the same time, a three-dimensional representation of the garden using photogrammetry addresses issues related to the plasticity of memory, represented in the plants my father cultivated, which are still alive today. I seek to capture his absence through images and establish a dialogue between our worlds. Photography serves as a starting point to question personal narratives and explore a newly created universe in which plants act as a bridge.
My approach to photography is fundamental to the production process. I am interested in how technological interventions alter the original meaning of an image, expanding the medium to new forms of consumption; becoming a territory for harvesting meanings, conjuring transmission, and reclaiming heritage.
Although Las Flores mueren dos veces (Flowers Die Twice) began as a photographic series, it has also become a virtual reality experience. The user is invited to journey through memory, fragmented thoughts, and the different possible versions of reality that arise from a shift in the course of personal history. Images of plants and landscape plans that began as two-dimensional images become a new immersive reality, raising questions about the new landscapes we inhabit and the discursive possibilities of photography through new languages.
Above all, it is a personal story told in three chapters of images: I. a series of analog photographs altered by code, II. a collection of digital plants created following my father's instructions, and III. an immersive garden accessible through virtual reality headsets.
This project is my response to the last words my father wrote and an invitation to think about all the relationships we once formed and that continue to develop after death.
Published by Dispara
16.5 x 22 cm
64+64 pages (two sections)
2021
