floral vanitas set in black water roses and tulips as never seen before empirical and analogue photographic processes

and analogue photographic processes

Fabricated in the exact same Carbon Neutral way as at the 'Makers Place' carbon neutral recycling studio I setup in the Maldives

It is of artists proof of Plate 0313 dated 1996

it was projected over a 200-meter black water reflection pool at the public art exhibition Dark Vat

As with Goya´s originals these are printed true to the original plate size

floral vanitas set in black water roses and tulips as never seen before empirical and analogue photographic processesThe 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,