In Vanitas, the mirror becomes a psychological threshold rather than a reflective surface. The female figure confronts a fragmented version of herself, suspended between self-recognition and estrangement. The skull and the candle evoke the iconography of Baroque memento mori paintings, yet the work shifts the theme of mortality toward an inner and emotional dimension. Silence, introspection, and theatrical light construct a suspended space where memory and identity slowly dissolve into one another.
