ROSERAIE — Pierre Creton

25 x 33 cm / 32 pages / November 2024

isbn : 978-2-35137-369-9

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I cut out a few pages from a book of roses by Pierre-Joseph Redouté from my parents' library and photocopied photocopied photographs I'd made or found in magazines found in magazines, to find what I had always associated associated: sex and flowers. I had torn up some of my after my mother had told me one day that she'd found them. discovered them. Some of them described my sexual relationship with my lovers my lovers, all the things I liked them to do, like pissing on me. I was suddenly trapped, considered

I had to go and see a psychiatrist. I managed to convince convince him that I had no problem with my homosexuality problem and that my fantasies were simply due to the strange period strange period I was going through because of my father's death. father's death. The psychiatrist told my mother that I was an artist, which made her laugh a lot. He also explained that these images release and relieve my sexual obsessions and that what remains is pleasing to the eye, odourless, can be reproduced preserved or sold.