Grey Gardens

Heleen Janssens

Sock-boot with translucent wedge heel and safety pin flowers, 3rd year collection for SASK, dโ€™Academie Beeld Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, 2023.

Inspired by ‘Grey Gardens’, the American documentary 1975) by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.

Photos by Hessel Waalewijn.


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