Vanishing Bubbles: A Dive into Mortality with Underwater Art textiles

Vanishing Bubbles: A Dive into Mortality with Underwater Art textilesThe Bubbles series explores impermanence, fragility, and reflection through the interaction of air, water, and light. Suspended within an underwater environment, bubbles become both subject and metaphor ephemeral forms that exist momentarily before dissolving, echoing long standing Vanitas traditions concerned with the transience of life. These works are created through direct physical intervention with water, where subtle gestures applied to surface

Due to the nature of the process

Nikko Taxi

and the weight of human activity that contribute to their separation and ultimate liquified resolution

bubbles have appeared in still-life painting as symbols of vanity and mortality

Kojin Taxi

Dimensions: small cup sized at 8 x 9 cm

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260 grammes - h 45cms x w 40 cms x d 11cms

Framed in deep black cotton velvet & American walnut

and the fragile balance that underpins existence

dated 1996

melting ice sheets