Collection: Vanitas: Paintings in January 2025
This series of paintings explores the quiet, inevitable passage of time through the intimate artifacts that surround us. Objects—mirrors, fabrics, heirlooms, and organic materials—serve as witnesses to personal history, their textures and wear reflecting the marks of use, care, and change. Through these still lifes, I examine the relationship between memory, identity, and ageing, considering how the things we collect evolve alongside us.
Ageing is woven into these compositions not just through subject matter, but through materiality and process. The soft fraying of fabric, the slow wilting of flowers, the patina of objects handled over time—all speak to the beauty and vulnerability of life in flux. The presence of mirrors further reinforces this dialogue, reflecting faces that shift and transform, challenging the viewer to consider their own changing self-perception.
By capturing these moments, I aim to honor the beauty in impermanence—the way objects and bodies alike bear the evidence of experience. This work is a meditation on the physical and emotional traces left by time, a reminder that to age is to carry the weight of memory, to be shaped by what we hold close, and to leave behind artifacts of our own.