A butterfly drained of color and stilled. Her migration stunted within the visible frame lines - all that flutters, the movement - created by camera and scanning technique. Human interference in vulnerable cycles of nature through domination over land for development and food production. The use of chemicals in unsustainable farming practices. Human attempts to fix what they have caused. All are layers of interference demonstrated here by the layers of process this film has gone through to arrive in the gallery. 16mm film processed with chemicals - visible on the film, and transferred to video - leaving artifacts of color, burned to DVD and looped on a TV. We work against ourselves, we sit and watch, while outside some of the fragile wings are still performing miracles, fluttering for 1000s of miles leaving larvae to transform and return.
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