35mm film photograph, treated by hand, developed, scanned, and presented without digital editing.

You will receive a limited giclée print on acid free, archival quality, thick 310gsm cotton rag paper.

Size: 20cm x 30cm

Prints are unframed with a white border, signed and numbered, edition of 30.

Imagining the butterfly as crone, a final archetypal stage, this series considers the metaphor of metamorphosis and reflects upon whether shifts must involve utter destruction of past selves or whether they are expansions upon past selves. As some caterpillar cells are reorganised and others destroyed and rebuilt, ‘Crone’ asks us what must be deconstructed and shed in order to change, and what may be preserved, becoming threads of continuity, or archetypes co-existing simultaneously. To explore these questions, 35mm film photographs of butterflies were destroyed using alchemic processes, left wrapped for a number of weeks, then developed. The images that emerged show light leaks, melted emulsions, twilight colour washes, glowing edges, cellular and amorphous shapes, moments of ripping and tearing, and butterflies which appear alongside the other artefacts in the film.