strawberries and wine glass on table with linen cloth and butterfly tokyo taxi Each work records a brief

Each work records a brief event in which buoyancy

most notable the polluted oceans

design may differ slightly from images as each piece is hand embroidered & assembled

0215’  dated 2017

strawberries and wine glass on table with linen cloth and butterfly tokyo taxi Each work records a briefThe 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,