Take Care

YEAR
2022

MEDIUM
9 Giclée prints on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper

SIZE
15 x 22.5 cm

EDITION
3 + 1 AP + 1 special client edition

THEMES
Memories

AVAILABILITY
Yes

Between January 2021 and April 2022, the artist spent a year and three months working in elderly care, entering about nine different households.

It is not easy when a stranger enters your home and life, but slowly acceptance and mutual trust were built. Stories were shared about grandchildren, but also about childhood; about miscarriages and children who were stillborn; about World War II and the time just afterwards. Conversational topics ranged the gamut from Ikebana flower arranging to birds, from politics to Dutch carnaval.

Living hand in hand with these stories were pain, sorrow, worries, illness and death.

‘Take Care’ was created as a tribute as well as a memento to the people that so generously opened their homes and hearts. It consists of nine still life photographs, each inspired by the different lives the artist was allowed to be a part of for a year-and-a-quarter.