”Kaleidoscopic Still Life” is a reinterpretation of the baroque still life painting as well as an experiment of how to use the photographic medium as a painting tool.
Aesthetically the series draw inspiration from the baroque still life painting’s use of dramatic light and saturated colors where value contrast is used as a tool to appeal to the senses in a dramatic way. The strong light and bright colors are as well used conceptually as a symbol for life, hope, and happiness. The vanity and fragility of life are depicted in my use of common vanitas symbols like rotten fruit, flowers, and skulls.
Emerging juxtapositions of life and death, happiness and anxiety, hope and hopelessness I aim to show the fragileness of life that we have to embrace in order to live our lives to the fullest. Ironically, my still lifes are preserved forever when captured in the photograph, this being my humble attempt to stay alive forever through my art as well as holding on to my memories of a fearless and light-hearted childhood in a world that with the eye’s of an adult seem fragile and unpredictable.
