Aquatic Odyssey: Butterfly Breeding in Liquid HarmonyThe 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

mounted to aluminium in an oak shou sugi ban frame

'Aged American Flag No

+ II artist proofs

Provenance:exhibition 'A beautiful announcement of death' 2012

20 x 16 inches / 50

Framed in deep black cotton velvet & American walnut

melting ice sheets

Unfortunately

and transformative-inviting reflection on the ways living beings adapt to altered states of existence

or as seen here simply sunk into the wall

Akihabara District

They are a memento mori of collapsing ice sheets