Cara Louwman Photography

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Transience is often depicted through the theme of vanitas in art, where symbols of impermanence and decay serve as poignant reminders of life's fleeting nature. In my contemporary still lifes, I employ mummified frogs, preserved butterflies, beetles and chamomile, each element pointing to the temporality of existence. These objects reflect the mutable character of nature, the cyclical rhythm of life and death, and of personal loss and longing, subtly reminding us of our own mortality.

The butterflies, frogs, and other creatures are presented atop an ostrich egg: a symbol of rebirth. In this gesture, the circle of life and death is complete, fragile yet infinite. My work invites us to linger in the tension between ending and beginning, to see beauty in impermanence, and to recognise the quiet poetry in the passage of time.

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