From the Shut Your Aperture archive (2015): Edyta Pękala’s original artist statement below tells the fictional story behind this staged series.
Edyta Pękala: Rose Photo Series
Photography series Rose by Edyta Pekala
The idea of my series “Rose” was born after watching a flower in vase standing on my desk.
In my mind I created a story about a girl who met a boy. The boy gave her a rose. Then he left and the rose she dried. She never left the rose, she treated it as a stigma. She always slept with rose…they were inseparable. Soon she realized that her spine becomes similar to stem of rose.
