Floral Vanitas Light and Water StudyThe 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

Rather than concealing the fabrication process

- Sold direct from the artists studio

Artist framed in Shou Sugi Ban chemical free

They were elegant

A far broader collection of these works can be seen on the Distil Ennui website

packed flat in a museum archival clam box wrapped in gesso paper

Rather than presenting photography as representation

Astronomers have used spinning stars called pulsars to create a galaxy-sized gravitational wave detector revealing the presence of ripples in space-time across the entire universe

interdependent elements coalescing into a single spherical entity

operating both as independent visual studies and as archival records of an ongoing exploration into light

minimalist design is reusable

with every element  produced by hand in the studio in a chemical free & carbon neutral way