Vanitas Photography: Parent and Offspring Dance with Rare 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

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The spiralling vortex design emulates the gravitational pull of a black hole

digital or traditional

Each photographic print is ordered either in small – 11

Mounting & Framing:  To keep this Vanitas Drop accessible

these works extend that lineage into an aquatic space

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

dated 2001

Each embodies a narrative of renewal

dated 2009

abstraction

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