floral vanitas set in black water roses and tulips as never seen before empirical dated 1996

dated 1996

and analogue photographic processes

This body of work draws on Gothic and Vanitas traditions

it was projected over a 200-meter black water reflection pool at the public art exhibition Dark Vat

floral vanitas set in black water roses and tulips as never seen before empirical dated 1996The 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,