Still Life with Reverse Perspective Table

Beneath the apparent stability of the still life lies a subtle instability of space. Perspective—normally the silent framework that organizes the visible world—can be bent, reversed, and reimagined. When its familiar rules are disrupted, ordinary objects begin to inhabit a space that feels both recognizable and strangely uncertain.

Still Life with Reverse Perspective Table I

2024

Archival pigment print

Edition of 10

Still Life with Reverse Perspective Table II

2024

Archival pigment print

Edition of 10

Still Life with Reverse Perspective Table III

2024

Archival pigment print

Edition of 10

Still Life with Reverse Perspective Table is a constructed photographic work that begins as sculpture and culminates in image-making. At the centre of the work is a reverse perspective table, built so that parallel lines converge toward a vanishing point positioned in front of the object rather than within pictorial space. The tabletop slopes sharply forward, subtly destabilizing conventional spatial logic and exaggerating depth from both near and distant viewpoints.

Resting on the table are three minimalist wooden sculptures—an abstracted cup and saucer, a vase, and a bowl of fruit. Reduced to simple linear forms, these objects echo the traditional language of still life while deliberately avoiding literal representation. Painted entirely white, the table and sculptures become neutral structures through which light and shadow articulate the image.

What begins as a familiar still life arrangement gradually shifts into a visual inquiry. The installation is photographed digitally and later transformed through processes such as solarization, tonal reversal, and colour shifts. Through these interventions, the sculptural construction extends into the photographic image, where perspective, light, and form begin to behave in unexpected ways.

In this work, the still life becomes less a depiction of objects than a quiet investigation into how space is perceived—and how easily that perception can be altered.

Where still life enters a space of impossible perspective.