Still Life of Flowers
2023
Plastic flowers collected from discarded cemetery arrangements were submerged in wax and placed in an open casket. The work engages with material longevity and ritualized viewing, evoking a contemporary Vanitas: a meditation on decomposition, temporality, and the afterlife of synthetic objects. The piece frames the audience’s encounter as a prolonged contemplative act, reflecting the thousand-year lifespan of plastic.
