a still life of two tulip flowers goya WATER AND THE CONDITIONS OF

WATER AND THE CONDITIONS OF FORM

these images extend the language of figurative painting into a submerged space where gravity

and the fragile balance between beauty and loss in contemporary life

the Dark Water works form part of The Legacy Collection as archival studies of restraint

a still life of two tulip flowers goya WATER AND THE CONDITIONS OFThe 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,