white underwater floral tribute vanitas for a modern world lighting This is a unique vintage

This is a unique vintage print (studio proof) dated 2014 from the 'Transparency of a dream' series (2013-Ongoing)

and the fragile balance between beauty and loss in contemporary life

when I met him he was 82 and still making the very same beautifully refined cup that he had started producing all those years ago

and just like these reactions

white underwater floral tribute vanitas for a modern world lighting This is a unique vintageThe 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,