rich colorful hues of fine tulip specimens with water making them look like paintings religious-iconography Set against dark voids

Set against dark voids

made from recycled beach cleanup Coke cans

producing sculptural splashes that exist only for a fraction of a second before collapsing back into stillness

photography

- exhibition ´Rastvoyrennaya Pechal´ 2014

rich colorful hues of fine tulip specimens with water making them look like paintings religious-iconography Set against dark voidsThe 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,