Every Seed in a Dandelion is a photographic project based on patience. It documents a single dandelion, picked outside the house where I was living at the time, and the gradual process of watching it disintegrate, one seed at a time, until only the stem remained.

 

I set up a makeshift studio to avoid any interference from the wind, settled the dandelion into position and waited. Rather than forcing the seeds loose, I let them fall in their own time and photographed each one as it fell. Over the course of the project, I counted 127 seeds,  a number that transformed an ephemeral and almost invisible event into something tangible, like a record of a small life dispersing.

 

 I used multiple exposures to record each seed's unique fell.  Layered together, these exposures trace a faint path across the frame, like a trace left by something that no longer exists in that form. The resulting images sit somewhere between documentation and drawing: sparse, high-contrast and mostly negative space, with each seed's trajectory rendered like a moving light.

 

This project is about the dandelion, but it is also about the discipline of observing something long enough to actually see it. Coexistence here means matching the seed's pace rather than my own, observing without intervening and letting each movement be recorded on its own terms. Every Seed in a dandelion is presented as a series; each photograph is a multiple exposure of around seven to ten individual seeds.

Serie

Photography

Variable dimensions

2021