natures bounty floral vanitas with butterfly photographed underwater on analogue camera gear hardware capable of preservation and erasure

capable of preservation and erasure in equal measure

Drawing from scientific principles underlying resonance

Rather than relying on simulation or illustration

By removing surface pigment and allowing purified water to occupy the capillaries of the petals

and fragile

natures bounty floral vanitas with butterfly photographed underwater on analogue camera gear hardware capable of preservation and erasureThe 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,