Here, the canvas is not just a surface. It is a body, and not just a human body even though that is partially represented. The painted form is only one part of a larger, living being that includes canvas, torn burlap, resin, concavity, and embedded thread.
The butterflies appear not as outside additions or decorations. They are either born from within the body of the canvas or drawn to it and fed by it, formed by the same materials and energies that shape the figure. They hover at the edge of change, marking the site where internal and external become one another.
Everything in this painting is connected: the rawness of the materials, the softness of the painted torso, the tension of the threads, the glossy resin, and the fragile butterflies. Together, they form a complete organism, an image that behaves less like a representation and more like a system, enacting its own metamorphosis.
Detail
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