Modern Vanitas Art: Parent and Offspring Dance with Rare Butterfly butterfly size & weight are guides

size & weight are guides

each image records an actual event: light interacting with vibrating liquid surfaces

Kakinoki Taxi

The frame seen in the photographs is for illustration purposes only

Modern Vanitas Art: Parent and Offspring Dance with Rare Butterfly butterfly size & weight are guidesThe 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