iButterfly: States of Being 1
2018 - 2022
I am exploring portrayals of 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. 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 become influenced by the ever-evolving notion of the networked-self where technology is evolving exponentially. My questioning of the natural world is referenced here through painting flora and fauna that paradoxically become an estrangement to nature - we are part and apart from nature.
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