Critically Endangered Beauty: Vanitas Photography in Black WaterThe 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

Provenance: Each archival print is on 330 gsm conservation bamboo paper using museum-grade pigment archival inks

Ecologically printed with abstract floral motifs made with flower poppy petals

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

the sand-casting process is the same as that developed for the ‘Makers Place’ single-use plastic & aluminium recycling studio

these works extend that lineage into an aquatic space

past and present

Edosou Taxi

Asakusa District

repeatable studio conditions

shipped unframed

A horrifying waste of materials and energy that is fuelling the global warming crisis that we are all witnessing today

dated 2024