Mortal Beauty: Subaquatic Impressions of Morpho Didius & Menelaus Butterflies swarm

Mortal Beauty: Subaquatic Impressions of Morpho Didius & Menelaus Butterflies swarmThe 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

sm  w   40 gms h120 x w30 x d30 mm

museum u/v varnish & mount

allowing wave behaviour to be observed directly through controlled

now with the introduction of a coke within the scene

small 1  w 26 gms h22 x w22 x d70 mm

water and the material conditions of image formation

Fabricated in the exact same Carbon Neutral way as at the 'Makers Place' carbon neutral recycling studio I setup in the Maldives

Sold as an unmounted print

Monochrome recordings heighten our consciousness of our precarious existence

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museum u/v varnish to protect the print

This is then overpainted in oil and finished in a craquelure varnish