Cristóbal Ascencio – Las flores mueren dos veces

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Cristóbal Ascencio, Las flores mueren dos veces (Flowers die twice) is a project that explores a father–son relationship marked by loss, silence, death, and reconciliation.

With this photographic work, the Mexican artist pays tribute to his father while inviting the viewer to reflect on all the relationships that continue to unfold after death.

The Mexican photographer Cristóbal Ascencio embarked on this project after discovering that his father’s death had been a suicide. This revelation led him to revisit his family archive and the last garden where his father—who worked as a gardener—had labored.

In this approach, Ascencio used various digital techniques to alter the images and to create a three-dimensional representation of the garden through photogrammetry, addressing the theme of memory through the plants cultivated by his father, which to this day remain alive.

Through photography, with plants as a bridge, the artist seeks to give shape to absence and to establish a dialogue between both worlds. Those plants that outlived his father are part of his memory and a tangible manifestation of the trace he left behind.

64 + 64 pages (two sections)
16.5 x 22 cm
900 copies
Paperback with foil stamping