Analog Film Elegance: Contemporary Vanitas with Rare Blue Winged ButterflyThe Butterfly, or Swarm, series explores themes of transformation, fragility, and mortality through the symbolic and physical presence of butterflies suspended within water. Across cultures and histories, the butterfly has carried layered meanings regeneration, freedom, spirituality, and death most notably within Greek thought, where it is closely associated with the soul. These works engage with that symbolic lineage while grounding it in direct

The production process is designed around circular principles with reduced material waste and low energy manufacturing

Provenance:

the construction remains intentionally legible

and reflection through the interaction of air

Hand wash only

shot handheld from the saddle of a push bike as I hunted around the city looking for the rarest of company designs

size & weight are guides

we too flash into being and fade back into the darkness

Augmented reality view is with the same framed image and for viewing purposes only

sized at 16

0111’  dated 2017

They are a memento mori of collapsing ice sheets