Installation view: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, curated by Julie Ault and Roni Horn Photo by Pierre Le Hors. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation

Nothing to Remember is a facsimile of 22 delicately-coloured prints on hand-drawn music paper created between 2004 and 2006 by Louise Bourgeois. This artists’ book follows from an earlier publication, Ode à l’Oubli (Ode to Forgetfulness), which Bourgeois made entirely out of fabric, using the linens and clothing remnants from her past. The words and images in Nothing to Remember are tentative and delicate, conveying the significance and fleetingness of memories.

in time of daffodils (who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why, remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so (forgetting seem)

in time of roses (who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if, remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek (forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me, remember me.

“in time of daffodils”, by e.e.cummings (via itseasyjusttolookaway)