Underwater Vanitas: Reflections on Life's Fleeting Beauty fusion

Underwater Vanitas: Reflections on Life's Fleeting Beauty fusionThe Butterfly, or Swarm, series explores themes of transformation, fragility, and mortality through the symbolic and physical presence of butterflies suspended within water. Across cultures and histories, the butterfly has carried layered meanings regeneration, freedom, spirituality, and death most notably within Greek thought, where it is closely associated with the soul. These works engage with that symbolic lineage while grounding it in direct

size 65 * 65 cms (+/- 1 cms) 25

bubbles have appeared in still-life painting as symbols of vanity and mortality

Dimensions: large cup sized at 8 x 12 cm

250 grammes - h 20cms x w 6 cms (each)Edition of VII

occupying a space between photographic record and abstract meditation

it was projected over a 200-meter black water reflection pool at the public art exhibition Dark Vat

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dated 2009

Can be provided threaded with an M4 40mm bolt

mounted in a baroque gold frame

This item is sold as an unmounted print

The artist is particularly drawn to the spherical form and has created this work "in camera" without any post-production