Morpho Ballet: An Artistic Exploration of Life's Transience lighting

Morpho Ballet: An Artistic Exploration of Life's Transience lightingThe 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

instead of ending up in land fill or worse

Dated 1988

made from recycled beach cleanup Coke cans

Lavender is also very effective at keeping insects & mosquitoes away from you and your suitcase when you travel

The cedar frame seen in some images is available to order only

surrounded by violent chemical reactions

Working within a restrained

Initialled & numbered recto by the artist in silver ink

water and the material conditions of image formation

The resulting images occupy a space between scientific inquiry and formal abstraction

Set against dark voids

Monochrome recordings heighten our consciousness of our precarious existence