A Bouquet of Flowers in a Crystal Vase

After the 17th-century Flemish master, yet what blooms within the composition is another matter.

Faces push through the petals. Roses bear mouths. A fallen bloom at the table's edge stares upward with a single eye. The bouquet is formally perfect and quietly wrong — a vanitas that has forgotten its own rules, or remembered something the tradition preferred to leave unsaid.

This is Layer 1: a digital seed for a larger fine art print work in progress.