Floral Vanitas Crop Option Light and Water Study taxi

Floral Vanitas Crop Option Light and Water Study taxiThe Vanitas series is photographed entirely underwater, where light, reflection, and refraction soften form and disrupt fixed edges. Water becomes an active agent within the composition, tempering surfaces and allowing contours to hover between definition and dissolution. Working within a restrained, low light palette, subtle currents articulate luminous borders and gentle shadow. Floral elements drift within this environment, suspended in a state of

A horrifying waste of materials and energy that is fuelling the global warming crisis that we are all witnessing today

transformation

The print is of a rare and very old variety of Paris Tulip from the 'Vanitas' series 2009 - ongoing

0226’  dated 2017

water and the material conditions of image formation

form briefly held

Finished size 52

Hand-stitched on natural undyed linen and filled with a generous amount of intensely fragrant

Provenance:exhibition 'A beautiful announcement of death' 2012

Unique archival pigment print on bamboo conservation paper

finished UV museum archival varnish

plate 0240