A skull, goblet, cylindrical form, and folded fabrics transform the vanitas tradition through geometric simplification, flattened colour, and modernist surface organisation.
Marilyn Monroe’s image is surrounded by cosmetics, fruit, candle, clock, mirror, and flowers, transforming beauty, fame, time, and mortality into a contemporary vanitas.
A skull smoking a burning cigarette transforms the traditional vanitas image into an ironic confrontation between mortality, habit, pleasure, and passing time.
