Vanitas Redux: Capturing Fleeting Beauty Below the Surface AnnaThe 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
recorded in Catalogue Raisonné
and the delicate thresholds between life
This work evokes visions of space
reflecting on impermanence
mounted to aluminium in an oak tray frame
allowing wave behaviour to be observed directly through controlled
The result is an image space that feels both intimate and unstable
and reconstituted through wave energy
parr - w 60-70 gms h30 x w90 x d44 mm
0108’ dated 2017
Framed in deep black cotton velvet & American walnut
This item is sold as an unmounted print
