If “my old as new” – a translation issue from Slavic languages (Polish: “moje stare jako nowe”). It implies a transformation: through Irenka’s lens, the old performs newness. This is the most likely meaning, given the Slavic diminutive “Irenka.”
In Zen aesthetics, there is wabi-sabi : the beauty of imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. Irenka’s work is wabi-sabi with a Dutch precision—clean backgrounds, careful aperture, but always a wrinkle, a scratch, a faded thread left in focus. Why that date? It is early spring. In the Netherlands, March 24th can be cruel or kind—perhaps snowdrops and crocuses are up, but the wind still bites.
Spring is the season of the old becoming new : the same soil, the same bulbs, but fresh shoots. Photographing in late March means catching that tension: the old winter still in the air, the new green just forcing its way through.
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