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Vanitas takes its title from the still-life tradition that reflects on impermanence, time and the fleeting nature of all things. In this divided ground study, the surface becomes a subtle meditation on balance and transience; gold set against earth, light held within fracture, permanence meeting change.
Built slowly through layers of gesso, pigment and wax, the surface forms its own unique fissures and shifts. Each work is unrepeatable; a singular record of process, pressure and time and impossible to recreate, even by my own hand.