using nature as a primary guide for artists practice devoted to the Vanitas genre tokyo taxi Floral specimens

Floral specimens

Once all prints are claimed

Petals drawn from cultivated tulips and roses are submerged in purified water

Written during the emergence of AI-generated imagery

using nature as a primary guide for artists practice devoted to the Vanitas genre tokyo taxi Floral specimensThe 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,