Collection of 55 Vanitas still-life artworks.

A series of artworks created as a homage and at the same time as an opposition to some of the greatest European artists from the 16th & 17th centuries, who dedicated their lives to the Vanitas art style. It was a sub-genre of painting heavily employed by Dutch painters during the Baroque period.

Homage because I respect, admire, and like them and their style, as they were rebels of the time, reminding society of the grotesqueness and absurdity of a hedonistic, overconsuming lifestyle.

And an opposition because with my work I try to depict the beauty of such life if it's taken and consumed with a reasonable amount of silent tranquillity, and secondly, because for me, contrary to the majority of people, I don't necessarily see skulls as a representation of death, but rather of life. I see them as a representation of something wonderful and highly symbolic, because underneath the skin, we are all the same!