Vanitas, Copper Engraving, Wood Engraving, Watercolour (red), 2020. Print size: 25x25cm, paper size ~31x32cm. Printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate 300gr "Antique" German mould-made archival quality paper.

Hand engraved and hand-printed contemporary Vanitas still life.

From ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA:
Vanitas - (from Latin vanitas, “vanity”), in art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. ... The vanitas evolved from simple pictures of skulls and other symbols of death and transience frequently painted on the reverse sides of portraits during the late Renaissance.
Although a few vanitas pictures include figures, the vast majority are pure still lifes, containing certain standard elements: symbols of arts and sciences (books, maps, and musical instruments), wealth and power (purses, jewellery, gold objects), and earthly pleasures (goblets, pipes, and playing cards); symbols of death or transience (skulls, clocks, burning candles, soap bubbles, and flowers); and, sometimes, symbols of resurrection and eternal life (usually ears of corn or sprigs of ivy or laurel).

In my interpretation of the Vanitas genre, I am planning to make a still life with a variety of everyday objects that in my opinion could symbolize death. The mobile phone that is about to discharge, a mug of coffee that is cooling down, Netflix on the laptop (symbolizing the passing of time, wasted time).