Transient Beauty: Life's Fragility in Underwater Butterfly Art fusion

Transient Beauty: Life's Fragility in Underwater Butterfly Art fusionThe 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

Dated 2008

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Written in response to the emergence of AI-generated imagery

Capturing a fleeting moment in time

unique archival pigment print with museum varnish size 8

Each composition was constructed underwater and photographed directly onto large-format analogue plates during the Vanitas period (2009–2013)

Here a famous Goya print is reworked

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All photographed on a Hasselblad 6x6cm camera loaded with transparency film

unmounted & unframed

Part of the ´Renaciendo´ project

mounted in a baroque gold frame