Fragments of a Fleeting World: On Beauty and Its Passing reimagines the tradition of Dutch Golden Age floral still life. Drawing inspiration from painters such as Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) and Jan van Huysum (1682–1748), this series isolates and reframes passages from historic compositions.

 

 

In these borrowed moments, I draw on the vanitas tradition: art’s oldest meditation on the impermanence of beauty, the richness of life, and the inevitability of its fading.

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Fragments of a Fleeting World: On Beauty and Its Passing invites reflection on the fleeting cycles through which life continuously emerges, fades, and returns, and the paradox that beauty is most luminous precisely because it cannot last.