art historical use of flowers in vanitas works lighting each image records a fleeting

each image records a fleeting event: a brief equilibrium between buoyancy

Your sense of touch instantly tells you that you are holding something special

What remains is not colour or surface beauty

and the formation of distant stellar objects that reference the Big Bang itself

art historical use of flowers in vanitas works lighting each image records a fleetingThe Vanitas series revisits the still life tradition through an underwater photographic process, extending a lineage that emerged most prominently in seventeenth century Dutch painting. Working entirely in water, these compositions draw on historical motifs associated with mortality, transience, and the passage of time. Floral specimens, organic matter, and carefully selected objects are staged within a submerged environment where light, reflection,