a modern day vanitas set in water creates a painterly scene rich of flowers and lifeThe 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,

Unmounted and unframed the print is very delicate

Vanitas imagery employed decaying fruit

Once you make your purchase you will receive the full film artwork to download

painterly compositions

where form is refracted

The piece is made from 70 beach cleanup Coca Cola cans

referencing the true source of life on Earth - the sun

If you are not selecting the UV varnish finish

The beauty of life and nature that surrounds us is ephemeral

Emerging from the artist's broader underwater practice

shaping both their psychological intensity and formal restraint

This range of silk scarves is completely made by hand in a lovely weighted satin silk