artist grows rare tulip varieties for his studio works exploring vanitas PUBLICATIONS Created entirely underwater

Created entirely underwater

and transient patterns that exist only for fractions of a second

0201’  dated 2017

Street view of Tokyo taxis

artist grows rare tulip varieties for his studio works exploring vanitas PUBLICATIONS Created entirely underwaterThe 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,