butterfly and floral vanitas scene underwater in black ceramics A luxurious cushion featuring a

A luxurious cushion featuring a unique underwater artwork of artist Alexander James Hamilton

0177’  dated 2017

What remains is not colour or surface beauty

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individually created from the artist’s original maquettes

butterfly and floral vanitas scene underwater in black ceramics A luxurious cushion featuring aThe 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,