golden yellow parrot tulip wide open revealing its inner stamen and pollen tipsThe 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 interference

Finished size 52

and perception

and transformation

Can be provided threaded with an M4 40mm bolt

packed flat in a museum archival clam box wrapped in gesso paper

Provenance: sold direct from the studio

signature biometrics recorded in Catalogue Raisonné

This was the first piece to be created in the new recycling studio in the Maldives 'Makers Place'

Dellasposa Gallery

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and form slowly emerging through physical resistance rather than compositional certainty