"Vanitas"

My favorite still life images are Dutch vanitas paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries. Within these paintings are a variety of hidden images rendered with great detail such as fruit, wilting flowers, insects, and sea shells.

Here is a classic vanitas style painting by Balthasar van der Ast who was a Dutch Golden Age painter: 

Balthasar van der Ast (1594–1657)
Still-Life of Flowers, Shells, and Insects

My artwork is largely influenced by traditional vanitas motifs. Often times I combine botanical imagery with bones and distorted forms of plants, insects, and animals to create hybrid compositions and installations.