Late last spring I heard from Jackie … she had a Simone Rocha dress that needed some flowers and a redhead.
I was dreaming of a frenzied magenta field, clashing patterns, some kind of storm in the calm of a pastoral afternoon.
Driving into the unknown armed with buckets I found a field of white calla lilies and enriched it in a way that made me think of an altar, the end of a certain Almodóvar film that stayed with me through the years and the genres. A hint of trashiness is my amulet.
I like to think of a photo not as a way of capturing what’s already there but of making a new reality. Becoming something else, seeing oneself in a new light... It can be temporary or permanent.
Fantasy as a tool of self-transformation, fantasy not simply dreamt but acted upon. And between vision and daily exertion, the flowers I dreamed of are here.
Credits: Art direction and styling in collaboration with Jacqueline Tierney. Model: Lilia. These photos & florals by me.