Warm Low Light Floral Vanitas Aqueous Still butterfly

Warm Low Light Floral Vanitas Aqueous Still butterflyThe 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

the sand casting process is the same that I developed for the 'Makers Place' single use plastic & aluminium recycling studio that I designed & built from the ground up for Soneva in Noonu Atoll

mallard wings & olive wood mount

3d printed wooden crucifix

shipped in a tube wrapped in gesso paper direct fro the darkroom

I initiated this project back in 2013

7h x 5d cms

They were elegant

7 inches / 60 x 45 cms

8″ × 16

shot handheld from the saddle of a push bike as I hunted around the city looking for the rarest of company designs

This is an archival pigment print of the original sculpture

but also implies an attitude and social consciousness