Water Canvas: Transforming Butterflies into Art lighting

Water Canvas: Transforming Butterflies into Art lightingThe 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

This approach allows complex forms to remain lightweight and materially efficient while retaining a tactile quality difficult to achieve through conventional manufacturing methods

Dimensions may vary by approximately ±5% due to the hand-production process

or as seen here simply sunk into the wall

Created using physics

Kojin Taxi III

each work is issued for the first time as an archival pigment print

Each composition was constructed underwater and photographed directly onto large-format analogue plates during the Vanitas period (2009–2013)

where subtle gestures applied to surface tension shape light into fluid

standing askew

5 inches / 57 x 75 cms

unmounted and unframed

Ecologically printed with vibrant lemon using hemp leaves with abstract motifs of flower petals from carnation