Underwater Study Tenebrist CompositionThe Vanitas series is photographed entirely underwater, where light, reflection, and refraction soften form and disrupt fixed edges. Water becomes an active agent within the composition, tempering surfaces and allowing contours to hover between definition and dissolution. Working within a restrained, low light palette, subtle currents articulate luminous borders and gentle shadow. Floral elements drift within this environment, suspended in a state of

'Morpho Peleides 0990’  dated 2011Edition of 25 archival pigment printspaper size 23

The piece is made from 140 beach cleanup Coca Cola cans

All photographed on a Hasselblad 6x6cm camera loaded with transparency film

This approach allows complex forms to remain lightweight and materially efficient while retaining a tactile quality difficult to achieve through conventional manufacturing methods

dated 2001

A luxurious cushion featuring a unique underwater artwork by artist Alexander James Hamilton

and transformative-inviting reflection on the ways living beings adapt to altered states of existence

this piece is a tactile

Each image functions as a measured observation rather than a constructed tableau: light passing through water

The resulting compositions exist between presence and disappearance

designed and built from the ground up in Noonu Atoll

shipped in a tube wrapped in gesso paper direct fro the darkroom