Vanitas Redux: Capturing Fleeting Beauty Below the Surface Anna

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