Underwater Butterfly Breeding Metamorphosis Series

The 'Butterfly / Swarm' series delves into themes of transformation, fragility, and mortality, featuring butterflies suspended in water. Across cultures, the butterfly symbolizes regeneration, freedom, spirituality, and death, notably in Greek thought, where it's linked to the soul. These works engage with this symbolism while rooted in direct physical processes. Light, shaped by water movement, interacts with the scene, creating a hyper-real yet painterly visual field where forms are refracted, dissolved, and reconstituted. The butterfly's metamorphosis, a complete and irreversible transformation, serves as a metaphor for change itself, inviting reflection on how living beings adapt. Water, as both medium and meaning, exposes the precarious balance between preservation and loss, underscoring life's temporary nature. Produced entirely in-camera, these works are contemplative meditations on impermanence and becoming, operating as archival records within The Legacy Collection.