Ecological Elegance: Modern Vanitas Photography Depicting Fragile Underwater Beauty bubble where reflection and refraction soften

where reflection and refraction soften boundaries and allow form to hover between emergence and erasure

mounted in a baroque gold frame

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

unique archival pigment print with museum varnish

The original work is made from pigment fired porcelain ceramic

Ecological Elegance: Modern Vanitas Photography Depicting Fragile Underwater Beauty bubble where reflection and refraction softenThe Butterfly, or Swarm, series explores themes of transformation, fragility, and mortality through the symbolic and physical presence of butterflies suspended within water. Across cultures and histories, the butterfly has carried layered meanings regeneration, freedom, spirituality, and death most notably within Greek thought, where it is closely associated with the soul. These works engage with that symbolic lineage while grounding it in direct