With the series Nothing, forever, Michele Landel is exploring the lingering presence of someone who is gone and how one processes and captures that specific feeling. She cuts and photographs flowers from her garden that were planted by the previous owner over the nearly sixty years that owner lived in the house. Michele prints, paints, and stitches the photographs onto layers of old bed sheets that belonged to the previous owner and were given to Michele by the owner’s children. While they never met, they share the same home and garden. These flowers are intimate but also impermanent and fragile connections to the previous owner and the history of the house. When Michele transfers the images to the bedsheets, the photographs become soft, blurred and dreamlike, mimicking our memories of those who have left but are still remembered.
