Vanitas Artistry: Parent and Offspring Dance with Blue Winged Butterfly license 'Morpho Peleides 0990’ dated 2011Edition

'Morpho Peleides 0990’  dated 2011Edition of 25 archival pigment printspaper size 23

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Vanitas Artistry: Parent and Offspring Dance with Blue Winged Butterfly license 'Morpho Peleides 0990’ dated 2011EditionThe 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