iButterfly: States of Being 


2019 - 2021


Butterflies become an analogy for transformation (metamorphosis) we experience as our everyday lives adapt to new technological, social and environmental developments. A peacock butterfly searches for individualism, a white cabbage butterfly consumes social media, red admirals become homogenised merging into a whole new unit, a swallowtail is broken down into parts as it connects itself to different spaces simultaneously.

Here I express my experience of an online and offline socially constructed world, where our dissipated selves are connected through multiple systems. The way we think and the way our brains are wired are influenced by the ever evolving notion of the networked-self where technology is evolving exponentially. Globalization’s widespread standardization produces de-differences that reduce characteristic differences such as that between individualism and the dissipated self, the self and the other, being connected and being alone, and homogenization and subjectivity.

oil painting; conceptual art; realism detail; butterfly painting; narrative; painting on canvas; juxtaposition; opart; pattern

African Queen Monarch, Blue Pansy and Spotted Blue Arab - 2021 - Oil on canvas - 120cm x 100cm

oil painting; conceptual art; realism detail; butterfly painting; narrative; painting on canvas; juxtaposition; opart; pattern

Red Admiral - 2021 - Oil on canvas - 120cm x 100cm

oil painting; conceptual art; realism detail; butterfly painting; narrative; painting on canvas; juxtaposition; opart; pattern

Monarch, Buckeye and Peacock on Flower  - 2021 - Oil on canvas - 120cm x 100cm

oil painting; conceptual art; realism detail; butterfly painting; narrative; painting on canvas; juxtaposition; pattern; surrealism

Painted Lady - 2021 - Oil on canvas - 120cm x 60cm

oil painting; op art; conceptual art, abstraction detail; realisim detail; butterfly painting; painting on canvas

Peacock - 2019 - Oil on canvas - 120cm x 150cm

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