

Suspended within a field of taut, diagonal striations, two butterflies become luminous interruptions—one earthy and ocellated, the other saturated in carmine and violet—each asserting a distinct emotional register against a meticulously patterned ground. The rippling bands read like a woven screen or wind-scored sand, turning space into a vibrating threshold where vision oscillates between clarity and optical dispersal. Their soft, pooled shadows anchor the fragile bodies to an implied surface, suggesting a quiet negotiation between transience and permanence, flight and containment. In this poised stillness, the work feels like an allegory of perception itself: beauty arriving briefly, yet held in place by the structures through which we look.