Watercolor Wings Underwater Photography of Fleeting Life textiles

Watercolor Wings Underwater Photography of Fleeting Life textilesThe 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

this is a framed artists proof dated 1996

fry - w 30-40 gms h22 x w70 x d34 mm

recorded in Catalogue Raisonné

giving discarded material removed from rivers

sm  w 280 gms h110 x w55 x d55 mm

where form is refracted

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

we too flash into being and fade back into the darkness

The works explore this geometry as a metaphor for accumulation

dated 2014

behind TruVue anti reflect & 99% u/v blocking museum glass

Supplied with a 3 metre hessian cord