{"id":3595,"date":"2025-10-14T06:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lennywaasdorp.nl\/wordpress\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:22:04","slug":"text-from-bioart-laboratories-ddw25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lennywaasdorp.nl\/wordpress\/text-from-bioart-laboratories-ddw25\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Grandma is a Rose\u2019 at BioArt Laboratories as part of Dutch Design Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\ud83c\udf39 We are honoured to introduce the 77th participant of The Symbiocene Forest, Roots 2025: Lenny Waasdorp with the intimate and poetic project My Grandma is a Rose \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83c\udf31<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE INSTALLATION ‘MY GRANDMA IS A ROSE’ DURING THE DUTCH DESIGN WEEK AT BIOART LABORATORIES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lenny\u2019s grandmother, Helena Maria Waasdorp-Kienjet, passed away on September 4, 2002, at the age of 88. For two decades, a rosebush stood rooted at her grave, drawing nourishment from the soil and, with it, the organic essence of a life once lived. When the grave was cleared in 2024, Lenny carefully transplanted the rose into her own garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with microscopist Rob van Es, Lenny created microscope slides of the rose\u2019s vein, root, flower and stem. These were then photographed, revealing the intricate cell structures of a plant that had become more than just flora \u2014 a living archive of memory, biology, and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83e\uddec \u201cWhen I see the cell structures of the rose, I\u2019m looking at my grandmother\u2019s DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this deeply personal work, Lenny blurs the boundaries between human and plant, ancestry and growth, mourning and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roots 2025 can be visited at BioArt Laboratories<\/a> as part of the Dutch Design Week<\/a> from October 18-26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83c\udf39 We are honoured to introduce the 77th participant of The Symbiocene Forest, Roots 2025: Lenny Waasdorp with the intimate and poetic project My Grandma is a Rose \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83c\udf31 Lenny\u2019s grandmother, Helena Maria Waasdorp-Kienjet, passed away on September 4, 2002, at the age of 88. For two decades, a rosebush stood rooted at her grave, … <\/p>\n

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