How to be remembered - a series of enigmatic portraits -

You have two certainties in life: you are born and you die. In our Western culture, we want to live as long as possible and think as little as possible about death. The photo series 'How to be remembered' shows how people want to be reminded. Not necessarily if they are dead, but at this time. The people portrayed are staring at us. Forever. They look at us in a memorable way. The photo series is based on the Egyptian mummy portraits from the Fayum Valley (100 BC to 300 AD). Actually the oldest images of persons which have been preserved. During life the portrait was made and showed how they wanted to be remembered after death. The portraits hung in their homes and after death were wrapped in the linen of the mummy. In this series the photographs are symbolic buried in the earth, the Western way to bury the death. After a while, the portraits will be unearthed, dried and molded in resin. This will help to maintain the portraits for the next 1000 years and will, like the Egyptian portraits, continue to exist. This series is still in progress. I would like to work towards 30 portraits as the portraits reinforce each other. The size of the portraits are the same as that of the Egyptian Fayum portraits, 19 by 38 centimeter.