a rich painterly floral vanitas with butterfly insects the Dutch golden age lighting abstraction

abstraction

Dellasposa Gallery

but aftermath: the residual beauty of volatile reactions already extinguished

lg    w 200 gms h200 x w45 x d45 mm

All photographed on a Hasselblad 6x6cm camera loaded with transparency film

a rich painterly floral vanitas with butterfly insects the Dutch golden age lighting abstractionThe 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,