Flowers Die Twice

Flowers Die Twice explores a father-son relationship marked by loss, silence, and reconciliation. My father died when I was 15, but I didn’t learn that it had been a suicide until I was 30. That discovery led me to revisit the images, places, and memories he left behind. In his farewell letter, he wrote: “Forgive me and reach out to me.”

Drawing on the family archive and the last garden where he worked, I use digital interventions and glitch effects to alter analog photographs and create images that serve as a metaphor for “corrupted memories.” At the same time, a photogrammetric reconstruction of the garden explores memory through the plants he cultivated, which are still alive today.

The project investigates how technology transforms the meaning of images and the possibilities for narrating grief. It unfolds in three chapters: a series of altered photographs, a collection of digital plants created following my father’s instructions, and an immersive virtual reality garden. Flowers Die Twice is a response to his last words and a reflection on the bonds that continue to grow even after death.