Environmental Elegance: Rare Butterfly Vanitas Photography Beneath the WavesThe 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

A recurring theme throughout my explorations is that responsible

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Unique archival pigment print on bamboo conservation paper finished with a museum varnish

each image records an actual event: light interacting with vibrating liquid surfaces

Print size 23

shipped in a triple walled tube

repeatable studio conditions

no commercial use or broadcasting either in part or whole at any time

Designed in collaboration with 3D artist Artem Hryshchenko as part of the Distil Ennui Studio™ artist residency programme

This work evokes visions of space

and refraction soften form and disrupt fixed edges

most notable the polluted oceans