Butterflies * 2011 * Plexiglass, thread, fabric, light

Gladstone Hotel; Room # 202

The light creates a shadow, and completes the butterfly. When the light moves, the wings appear to flutter. This was an exciting piece for me, it has been dancing in the shadows of my mind for a few years, and finally I had the space and time to see it come to fruition.
Sweet imaginings and the culmination of work that had taken place in Colorado, Nova Scotia and finished here, at home in Toronto.

Side view of plexiglass with squares cut into them, the shadow creates butterfly wings.
Single plexiglass 'butterfly'.
Plexiglass and shadow create a butterfly image.
Side view: Plexiglass wings, and shadow that makes up a butterfly.
Side view of three butterflies made of plexiglass.

I would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council for funding this project and Akimbo for the award of the space at the Gladstone