Scream of the Butterfly

Butterflies are often associated with a whimsical beauty but one rarely considers the brutal process the creature goes through to become that way. Caterpillars retreat into their cocoons and within the darkness begin to digest themselves, a painful act which we do not see. After the metamorphosis, we observe the light and delicate butterfly float off out of the abandoned carcass of its past self.

Face Off

Scream of the Butterfly Triptych

Working in-camera, I use my skin as the paint and movement and emotions as the brush to paint with light in these photographic paintings .