Dashboard

Some of the items in this photo are typically Dutch. The Philips radio, Philips is a Dutch company. The Douwe Egberts paper coffee cup, Douwe Egberts is a Dutch coffee company. The shirt that is on the dashboard looks like it could be an jersey worn in support of the Dutch national football team.

Somewhere in this picture you can find a skull. Do you see it?

The skull and the citrus fruits with the curls hanging down the dashboard. This photo is reminiscent of a vanitas still lifes. Works painted in this genre are a symbol of the passage of time and the certainty of death. They often depict objects connected to wealth and knowledge next to symbols of death, like a skull.

Elspeth is a Dutch artist whose medium of choice in photography. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya and grew up in Colombia.

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