Underwater Reflections: Air Bubbles and Light In Clear Open Water license and symbolic objects to confront

and symbolic objects to confront viewers with the inevitability of death and the futility of material excess

Artist signature & date recto in black ink

Dated 1992

size 65 * 65 cms (+/- 1 cms) 25

Positioned within a contemporary Vanitas tradition

Underwater Reflections: Air Bubbles and Light In Clear Open Water license and symbolic objects to confrontThe Ocean Bubbles series draws from underwater studies in which air, water, and light intersect to form transient abstract structures. Emerging from the artist's broader underwater practice, these images focus on bubbles as both physical phenomena and visual metaphors, suspended momentarily before dissolving. Each work records a brief event in which buoyancy, pressure, and surface tension converge. Light passing through liquid and air generates