Reflecting Tranquility: Flying Beetles in Liquid Dreams Anna

Reflecting Tranquility: Flying Beetles in Liquid Dreams 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

each image records a fleeting event: a brief equilibrium between buoyancy

mounted to a pure recycled copper plate

made from recycled beach cleanup Coke cans

This work evokes visions of space

Unique print

sized at 23

visual representations of wave mechanics and cosmological phenomena have often relied on interpretive or illustrative methods

dated 2001

small - w 65-75 gms h62 x w62 x d48 mm

Can be provided threaded with an M4 40mm bolt

reflection

The artist is particularly drawn to the spherical form and has created this work "in camera" without any post-production