white Paris tulips in water blooming with vitalityThe 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,

and the fragile balance between beauty and loss in contemporary life

For several decades

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aligning botanical history with the long arc of cultural development

Water is a life force

Single botanical specimens and more complex floral constructions are isolated against dark fields

carnation and tansy

Street view of Tokyo taxis

What is captured is not duration

The beauty of life and nature that surrounds us is ephemeral

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0112’  dated 2017