Floral Vanitas Crop Tenebrist Composition taxi

Floral Vanitas Crop Tenebrist Composition taxiThe Vanitas series is photographed entirely underwater, where light, reflection, and refraction soften form and disrupt fixed edges. Water becomes an active agent within the composition, tempering surfaces and allowing contours to hover between definition and dissolution. Working within a restrained, low light palette, subtle currents articulate luminous borders and gentle shadow. Floral elements drift within this environment, suspended in a state of

The works reference the broader scientific context of wave theory and gravitational research

A horrifying waste of materials and energy that is fuelling the global warming crisis that we are all witnessing today

the sand casting process is the same that I developed for the 'Makers Place' single use plastic & aluminium recycling studio that I designed & built from the ground up for Soneva in Noonu Atoll

giving discarded material removed from rivers

reflecting on impermanence

Okyo King Taxi

0226’  dated 2017

and the formation of distant stellar objects that reference the Big Bang itself

unique archival pigment print with museum varnish size 8

5 inches / 57 x 75 cms

glowing from within and evoking the elemental dynamics of stellar formation and collapse

The work features holographic projection mapping on a black water reflection pool and a 4K video animation created by artists Inna Shestakova and Alexey Shidlovsky