art historical use of flowers in vanitas worksThe 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,

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They are Coca-Cola

allowing subjects to hover within a darkened field that neither intrudes upon nor overwhelms their presence

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aligning botanical history with the long arc of cultural development

lived event: performers suspended in water

the manuscript follows four decades of analogue practice in which photographs emerge from constructed physical systems

soft with a lustrous sheen

A delicate magnolia blossom immersed in water