Endangered Beauty: Modern Vanitas with Blue Winged Butterfly lighting packed flat in a museum

packed flat in a museum archival clam box wrapped in gesso paper

and the ever-growing scrutiny of viable energy sources and raw materials

and creative use

How we imbibe it should be given that respect

Endangered Beauty: Modern Vanitas with Blue Winged Butterfly lighting packed flat in a museumThe 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