conch and tulips vanitas scene set underwater tokyo taxi PA & G Gallery

PA & G Gallery

these works stand as singular records of a larger conceptual and physical undertaking

where visibility is reduced and form emerges slowly from shadow

tempering surfaces and allowing contours to hover between definition and dissolution

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conch and tulips vanitas scene set underwater tokyo taxi PA & G GalleryThe 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,