Iora Still Life

This painting presents an articulated Iora bird skeleton encased within a glass cloche, positioned beside a delicate arrangement of dried florals. Together, they form a quiet tableau that reflects on the inevitability of decay and the fragile beauty preserved within impermanence.

Rendered in oil with painterly precision, the composition draws on vanitas traditions—where death, time, and transformation converge in symbolic stillness. The cloche functions not only as a vessel of preservation but as a boundary between memory and the present, inviting contemplation of what once lived and what lingers behind.

Through this piece, I aim to evoke the reverent curiosity of a naturalist’s cabinet, where bones and blossoms coexist as artifacts of life's transience. It is both an act of remembrance and a meditation on mortality—poised between the clinical and the sacred.
Framed as shown & ready to hang.