rich colorful hues of fine tulip specimens with water making them look like paintings religious-iconography producing sculptural splashes that exist

producing sculptural splashes that exist only for a fraction of a second before collapsing back into stillness

poised between emergence and disappearance

- exhibition ´Rastvoyrennaya Pechal´ 2014

Set against dark voids

made from recycled beach cleanup Coke cans

rich colorful hues of fine tulip specimens with water making them look like paintings religious-iconography producing sculptural splashes that existThe 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,