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Nature Morte (Still life)

I create analogue and digital collages from vintage imagery, found materials and pressed botanicals. I reassemble these fragments of femininity, memory and nature to explore how cultural ideals are constructed and made to feel natural. The same question guides my research into heritage, narrative, and cultural identity. 

By working with techniques traditionally associated with feminine craft, such as cutting, collecting and pressing flowers, I bring these practices into a contemporary artistic context.

The Series:
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Nature Morte (Still Life)

Vintage women, pressed botanicals: how decoration frames and contains femininity.

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Rehearsing the Ideal

Archival women in synchrony: femininity learned through contant visual repetition.

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Botanical Assemblages

Pressed flowers assembled into hybrid forms: Ornament and organism converging.

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© 2026 Ilja Simons

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