Floral Aqueous Still taxi Historically rooted in the Vanitas

Historically rooted in the Vanitas tradition of still life

and cosmological metaphor

finished in museum varnish

offering a contemporary reflection on mortality

and not in its original 1902 form

Floral Aqueous Still taxi Historically rooted in the VanitasThe Vanitas series is photographed entirely underwater, where light, reflection, and refraction soften form and disrupt fixed edges. Water becomes an active agent within the composition, tempering surfaces and allowing contours to hover between definition and dissolution. Working within a restrained, low light palette, subtle currents articulate luminous borders and gentle shadow. Floral elements drift within this environment, suspended in a state of