a simple still life vanitas photograph that looks like a paintings homewares plate 0442

plate 0442

0118’  dated 2017

Initialled

recorded in Catalogue Raisonné

Part of the ´Renaciendo´ project

a simple still life vanitas photograph that looks like a paintings homewares plate 0442The 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,