Artful Water Medium: Vanitas Photography with Critically Endangered Butterfly tokyo taxi The underwater setting slows perception

The underwater setting slows perception

The original work is photographed underwater with a single unique darkroom print made from the original 8x10 inch film plate

signed with a full signature and dated by the artist recto

For Vanitas Variations

individually created from the artist’s original maquettes

Artful Water Medium: Vanitas Photography with Critically Endangered Butterfly tokyo taxi The underwater setting slows perceptionThe 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