Vanishing Flight: Underwater Photography of Butterfly Breeding butterfly

Vanishing Flight: Underwater Photography of Butterfly Breeding 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

from polluted landscapes

Artist framed in Shou Sugi Ban chemical free

This obligation is both spiritual and material

hand-fabricated works that transform discarded materials into functional sculptural forms

The underwater setting slows perception

medium  w 65 gms h30 x w30 x d105 mm

WATER AND THE CONDITIONS OF FORM

The Vanitas series is photographed entirely underwater

0108’  dated 2017

giving single-use waste a new life

Part of the ´Renaciendo´ project

shipped in a tube wrapped in gesso paper direct from the darkroom