Archive for June, 2013
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Stills or Flowers for the Soul
‘Still’ is a synonym for distillate. But it is also ‘snapshot’ or ‘still life’. And ‘memory’. For this project I made stills from the garden of my Dutch grandfather, who was a head of public parks in Assen. I only learned about his flower gardens through hearsay. I decided to use chemistry as a tool for my translations, because my Egyptian granddad was a chemistry professor. Combining the professions of my granddads (who never met) resulted in 4 liqueurs (the Stills) that could be tasted during the exhibition. Read more