Vanitas

A vanitas is a typical XVI and XVII century symbolic representation of the transience of life, futility of pleasure and the certainty of death, that uses typically flowers or fruit. In this occasion, the Dutch still life paintings have been used as a framework to represent death by car accidents: fake flower compositions found at the edge of the streets where fatal road accidents took place.
Each composition has been carefully lit to isolate it from its background that connects to its own story, in order to enhance its universal meaning.

Produced for the San Fedele Award, Milano, Italy 2007