Endangered Elegance: Vanitas Photography Featuring Butterfly Wings Underwater empirical poised between emergence and disappearance

poised between emergence and disappearance

each image records a fleeting and irreversible moment

the black scars

structure and illumination

Endangered Elegance: Vanitas Photography Featuring Butterfly Wings Underwater empirical poised between emergence and disappearanceThe 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