Vanishing Wings: Life and Mortality in Aqua Art Anna

Vanishing Wings: Life and Mortality in Aqua Art 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

rivers and land fill sites filled with single use packaging

each image records a fleeting and irreversible moment

shipped unframed

The print is of a rare and very old variety of Paris Tulip from the 'Vanitas' series 2009 - ongoing

we too flash into being and fade back into the darkness

where light

How we imbibe it should be given that respect

WATER AND THE CONDITIONS OF FORM

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tempering surfaces and allowing contours to hover between definition and dissolution

past and present

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