emperors truth a vanitas of peaches and fruit with beetleThe 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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Today these illuminated designs are all but a memory

and the ever-growing scrutiny of viable energy sources and raw materials

Ecologically printed with abstract floral motifs made with hollyhock petals

and fragile

A collection of aged crucifixes is introduced to the water's surface

individually created from the artist’s original maquette

material desire

Dated 1990

Every handle is a unique casting

Vanitas Variations are studio edition works released in January 2026

soft with a lustrous sheen