Rare Butterfly Magic: Contemporary Vanitas Photography on Analog FilmThe 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

and the formation of distant stellar objects that reference the Big Bang itself

these images are created in the studio as physical experiments in which liquid becomes both subject and medium

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The collaboration with editing artist Oleg Deetz and audio landscape by SubOctane brings an added dimension to the artwork

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in our case corn starch & sugar cane

and the delicate thresholds between life

Dated 1990

large - w 250-280 gms h55 x w180 x d54mm

dated 2002

the Bubbles works form part of a broader investigation into water as both medium and meaning