iButterfly: States of Being 1
2018 - 2022
I am exploring portrayals of how I perceive the individual within a humanly constructed environment. A peacock butterfly searches for individualism, a white cabbage butterfly consumes social media, a swallowtail is broken down into parts as it connects itself to different spaces simultaneously. In this series of works butterflies become an analogy for the notion of metamorphosis we experience as we adapt in our everyday lives to new technological, social and environmental developments. Here, my world on canvas references flora and fauna yet paradoxically it is an estrangement to nature - we are part and apart from nature. I paint a world of constructed and organic elements one feeding into the other.
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.
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