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Memory

Memory

2002

This picture was taken in the Vendée region of France, in a garden designed by the French politician Georges Clemenceau. He was a friend of the painter Claude Monet and attempted to match his painting style in his garden. The result was a very cluttered picture. So I decided to select just one flower colour to keep, and took the rest of the image to sepia in Photoshop.

The idea was to imagine my memory fading to sepia and then something, like Proust tasting a madeleine, triggers an old thought and some colour returns.