how a photograph can look like a traditional vanitas painting pheasant goya surrounded by violent chemical reactions

surrounded by violent chemical reactions

Nikko Taxi

0194’  dated 2017

Each handle embodies a story of renewal

shipped unframed

how a photograph can look like a traditional vanitas painting pheasant goya surrounded by violent chemical reactionsThe 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,