an underwater vanitas scene traditional and yet contemporary goya unmounted and unframed

unmounted and unframed

float mounted on ivory board

The works explore this geometry as a metaphor for accumulation

this way the ordered artwork will will arrive as a lovely surprise for you to open

an underwater vanitas scene traditional and yet contemporary goya unmounted and unframedThe 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,