I am part of Generation Y, aptly named millennials. Compared with previous generations, millennials are known to take on responsibilities at a later stage in life. This might be partly imposed to, as for example, employers being more demanding and the residential market is a tough cookie for starters. On the other hand, millennials are less and less adhering to traditions compared with the previous Gen X. So they tend to study longer, buy a house or get married later and have children at an older age. Yet, there is one thing they do want to take responsibility for: plants. Plants require just the right amount of attention to give Gen Y a certain sense of responsibility.
When starting this project, I was mostly looking at myself. I give shelter to quite some plants but I always succeed in killing my darlings. After a while, I noticed I wasn’t the only one in my close surroundings, as it wasn’t hard to collect the models for this project at all. So I collected them and started to portray our sense of (ir)responsibility.
A generation that loves plants but leaves them to die.
N.M.
age: 27
B.B.
age: 31
F.P.
age: 25
T.C.
age: 26
W.L.
age: 32
N.M.
age: 27
T.G.
age: 29
N.M.
age: 27
E.H.
age: 27
L.T.
age: 27
T.G.
age: 29
T.V.
age: 27
A.L.
age: 29
A.H.
age: 29
A.V.
age: 26
R.C.
age: 23
N.M.
age: 27