New Order Still Life with a Vase of Flowers and Dead Frog (after Jacob Marrel 1634)
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm
21 x 29.7 cm
2020
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Over 370 years ago was the 1st recorded economic bubble and crash over the speculation of tulip bulbs. At its peak they sold for the price of a house. The Still Life genre is romantically about fragile life and futile materialism that helped disguise the display of wealth accrued from colonisation, plantations and slavery. An algorithm is used to re-order pixels of photos of paintings from the Rijksmuseum to suggest a new order in the digital age and how history rhymes.