Forget Me Not X - Silvia Celeste Calcagno

Hand-retouched photographic print with enamels and synthetic thinners on GardaMatt Digital 350 gr wood-free coated paper

One of a kind piece

48x33 cm

2025

Forget-me-not is a tribute to existence, to life; it is an act of gratitude.
The work is dedicated to his mother, who had forgotten the details and rhythms of everyday life, but not the ability to gaze. He linked this event to the ephemeral nature of flowers, which, through their transience, express the poetry of metamorphosis, passing from the pinnacle of beauty to withering and finally death.
Imprinted in a snapshot on paper, subsequently worked with thinners and enamels, fixed in a definitive material process, they become fragile presences.
The Myosotis (Forget-me-not), which gives its title to the series, is a small flower capable of iconographically conveying indissoluble bonds, a symbol of the persistence of memory.
It enters a moment of autobiography characterized by the awareness of transience, thus becoming a subject of reflection on the very nature of existence which, from being individual, becomes universal.