Naming this photograph My Love invites a different way of seeing the wilted lilies. Rather than reading them simply as fading flowers, the title positions them as a metaphor for affection, fragile, altered by time, and shaped by what remains as much as by what has been lost.
The lilies stand in a glass jar, their stems bowed, their leaves scattered across the table. The composition is unadorned, direct. Instead of presenting love in its moment of bloom, the image lingers in its later stage, a moment rarely celebrated, yet deeply revealing. The fallen leaves suggest what has been shed; the jar holds what endures; the stems, though withered, still offer a kind of persistence.
The title shifts the still life into something more personal. It becomes a portrait of attachment, of memory, of the ways affection changes shape over time. By pairing a tender declaration with an image of decline, the work creates a tension between sentiment and reality, or perceived reality, between what love promises and what it ultimately becomes.
In this sense, My Love is less a statement than a reflection... on beauty, vulnerability, and time that define emotional connection.
This work was shown in a group show Topographie d’une Amitié at Wartsaal Wipkingen in September 2025.
Giclée print on fine art paper
Edition 1/1, no artist proof, signed en verso
29.7 × 21 cm (A4), framed with 92 Anti Reflective Artglass
CHF 1’800