Vanishing Beauty: Life's Dance in Underwater Art sculpture

Vanishing Beauty: Life's Dance in Underwater Art sculptureThe 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

instead of ending up in land fill or worse

Ecologically printed with abstract floral motifs made with hollyhock petals

Dated 1986

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Artist framed in Shou Sugi Ban chemical free & sustainably harvested cedar frame finished in a matt shellac

Print size 23

Wan Wan Taxi

and reflection through the interaction of air

carnation and tansy

where it is closely associated with the soul

The collaboration with editing artist Oleg Deetz and audio landscape by SubOctane brings an added dimension to the artwork

when applied