butterfly strawberries and water jug on table still life vanitasThe 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,

Artist made cedar wood frame is included in the sale

Unique archival pigment print on bamboo conservation paper finished with a museum varnish

Artists Proof No

Through this artwork

Ecologically printed with abstract floral motifs made with hollyhock petals

By submerging floral forms into near-black water

melting ice sheets

Plate VIII

This is a photographic print of the original sculpture 'Carbon black Jesus with wings'

Its transient nature underscores the temporary conditions of life

5″ (60 × 42 cm)

It is of artists proof of Plate 0313 dated 1996