emperors truth a vanitas of peaches and fruit with beetle taxi Petals drawn from cultivated tulips

Petals drawn from cultivated tulips and roses are submerged in purified water

exhibition 'The house of the Nobleman' 2011

They are Coca-Cola

Unique archival pigment print

0110’  dated 2017

emperors truth a vanitas of peaches and fruit with beetle taxi Petals drawn from cultivated tulipsThe 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,