water wave energy effecting a photographic vanitas scene scientific process to create artworksThe 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,

transforming the familiar language of memento mori into a study of transience

the Figurative series operates as an archive of endurance

Dated 1993

tansy and zinnia varieties

Kojin Taxi

Nestlé & Unilever

Goya dedicated his entire life to art that captured and expressed the realities of his time

reflection

softens edges

which is the process of merging two or more things into a single entity

Through submersion

They are a memento mori of collapsing ice sheets